I can't speak to the 14 year old with explosives around her body. That's just too far out for me. The situation with the two teenagers was, more than likely, the result of the girl's parents pressing to have the boy punished. It seems unfair to me that the young man should be punished so severely when there was only one year's difference in their ages and the act they committed was consensual. I'm surprised a judge didn't step in to see that justice was done.
please explain the transition from 14 year old with dynomite.
to oral sex between a 17 and a 18 year old?
yichel
posted by yichel
over 3 years ago
Either one, if used correctly, will blow your mind, yichel. I thought you knew that.
It was in the news today. I mentioned she was carring 30 pounds of explosives to bring to your attention, the fact; she was married at 14 or 15.
Both my example are extremes of the consent age.
14,15,16 17, 18 or even 21 or 12 of age.
Is our country backward with it's age of 18 for consent?
DKG
YES!!!!............at 13 and 14 they are not children. They pretty much know what they are doing. Do they understand the consequences no, who does till they are 40? so.....why not admit that they are no longer children and help them understand their actions have consequenses. It takes two, and a young man in jail while the girl is free is just wrong.
You can not fight mother nature.
there was just a story about educators wating to LOWER the drinking age to 18....they feel this will reduce binge drinking in colleges.....right....and what planet do they live on?
posted by amond
over 3 years ago
As far as I know, the age of consent to marriage is different from the age of consent to sex, in most places. I cannot speak for any other country, but here, I think that most or all states have an age of consent to sex that is dependent upon the age difference, as long as both are under the age of consent. In most places, there is a limit to how many years difference there can between the two. Now if the older one was over 18, or over 21, depending on the statute, it may not matter how close in age they were; if the other one was under the age of consent, it still could be considered illegal.
Why this boy was sentenced probably has another factor..... such as was she drunk or given a drug, was she otherwise mentally incapable of giving consent, etc. It may also be, yes, that her parents were demanding the letter of the law, and were given a trial on that basis. We would need to know all the particulars to make a judgment about that sentence. It may be that it was unfair..... it may be that it was a long time ago, and would not have happened under current laws.
In any case, in NO WAY should the age of consent, for sex or for marriage, or for blowing yourself up, or for drinking or for driving, or for smoking or for joining the active duty military services, be dropped. Not even one year lower, for any of those things. In some places it is age 16 or 15 or 14 for the age of consent to sex if the partner is also of similar age. That is WAY TOO LOW. Kids that age do not take anything seriously enough, and they have no idea what they are risking in disease, in emotional costs, in teenage pregnancy. The only thing they take as life or death are the things that affect their hormones, not realizing that these things are transitory and illusory, and have no relationship to the really serious issues they face. Getting invited to the next dance, not being teased about sexual or personal matters, releasing sexual tension, having acne, wearing the latest fashions, having a cell phone, getting a driver's license, making the team..... these things which we know are only important momentarily, loom larger than any grades in class, any rules we make for them, or words in a sex education class, or even the graphic pictures of mangled bodies and twisted automobiles in driver's ed.
Many communities are already raising the age of driver's classes to senior year or age 18, and if they still allow kids to get licensed at 16, they are restricting the hours they can drive and the passengers that are allowed to drive with them.
The age when most teens are just beginning to experience, and have in no way managed to deal with, their most ferocious hormonal changes and erratic growth, is NOT the age to give them the responsibility for life-changing decisions.
Almond
I think you are talking about New York. They lowered the drinking age to 18, then reversed their decision and put it back to 21. Too many problems at 18.
But drinking and consent are too different things. Care to answer my question?
Don
Helenna
Thank you. Well stated. I worked with a woman for ten years who was married at 12 and a grandmother before she was 30. She was an intersting person to talk with.
Don
I think Don is just questioning what the right age to do anything is. (But I had to take a double take at the jump from suicide bomber to sex too lol)
I know some 30 year olds that are still too immature to behave maturely, and I know some youngsters below the age of consent that very frankly I envy.
Age is a lousy line of demarcation; you can be damned if you do and damned if you don't. It really depends on the individual and we have no way of determining their qualifications by age, only an educated guess.
