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Old Sep 29, 2019, 5:37 pm
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To be fair, making a kid an AU used to contribute to their credit score. That went away a while ago IIRC.

But, yes, helping establish a credit score early on is useful in US society. For all sorts of crappy reasons, but it is part of the process.
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