Information at their fingertips where? By your own admission not here. If they can't get straight answers on how to run a cycle here because of there age then where? What's the cutoff age anyway 18,19,20,21,22,23?
Ever used google? Once given the warning that they could hurt them selves the final decision is up to them. Same as signing up to go to war, there's no draft I don't see them being held by gunpoint!