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Who has influenced your sah/woh
| Thu, 02-09-2006 - 2:39pm |
opinion to DIFFER. What I mean is--is there anyone on this board or in real life whose opinion/reasoning/debating/facts started to make your thinking more to the middle? As in if you thought sah or woh was best & then after some discussion/thought, you began to think that whatever is best for each family--really there is no one best way, etc.
We just really needed a new thread here!!!!!!!!


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Jennie
That's a very good point.
PumpkinAngel
It's pretty hard to regulate sex between 15-yr-olds. However, there are statutory rape laws to protect kids from having sex with adults 18 and older.
Our laws recognize that kids are not responsible for themselves yet. Adult privileges such as drinking, driving, and apparently obtaining birth control are all regulated. Juveniles receive special treatment because of their age. Parents are legally responsible for their kids until they are 18.
Again, the teenage brain is not fully-developed. That is why kids need special protection.
And we've been talking about 15-yr-olds. If you want to argue that 18-yr-olds are old enough to have sex, I'd say--some are, some aren't. I'd rather my kids waited until college.
"The point is that the law recognizes that teens are *not* adults."
No it doesn't. It recognizes that 13-17yo teens are not adults. As you acknowledge in your next sentence, 18 and 19yo's are adults. There is a 2 year time frame during somebody is both a teen and an adult. I realize that it's cumbersome to type "highschool student" instead of "teen" all the time, but perhaps using "teen" as being equivalent with both "highschool student" and "not yet adult" has made it easy to forget that they aren't synonymous. As some highschool seniors have discovered to their sorrow when they got charged as the adults they were for doing things which would have been more lightly penalized if they'd still been <18.
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