Originally Posted by
robcheshire
UK banks issue debit cards to kids from 11 years old.
I appreciate that my two teens are not representative of society as a whole, but they regard cash as rather quaint and old-fashioned, and both prefer to live in a 100% digital World.
It's very common in Canada for young children to have debit cards. If they're old enough to pay at a restaurant, they probably have a card. Even Monopoly now has an electronic banking version since playing with paper money seems so last century!