[El Gato]

Most of us never made our own personal decision to enter into the social security system. Our parents made that choice for us

Speak for yourself young grasshopper. I filled out my own application. We were allowed, even required, to that, "back in the day", sometime in the early Dark Ages IIRC. :)

[WOSG]

For tax reasons, all our kids got social security #s at age one. Its the way of the world nowadays.