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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Peregrinus: [QB] Age of Consent at the national and state level is one of the more painfully unexamined fallacistic laws we have in America. Most (like 47 or 48) states have 18 as the default age of consent. A couple are 17, and one (which one, I can't remember) is 16. Most states also have a [i]second[/i], lower age of consent with parental permission -- in some cases equal, in others different for boys than girls. The Age of Majority and the Age of Consent are about as annoying to me as America's archaic Consanguinity laws. Fortunately, the latter are being slowly phased out on a state-by-state basis. Not that I want to marry one of my cousins (although several of them are pretty hot), but we have no business perpetuating a law that only exists due to 15th-century European political convenience. As it is, I wrote a nice long rant, thinly disguised as a Sociology paper, on why the Ages of Majority and Consent should be re-examined and re-structured along with the American educational system. It's not enough that kids have always matured at different rates, and when you throw the mental/emotional/physical schism into the mix, it adds even more complexity to the model. What's more, physical maturity is being reached at younger and younger ages these days than it was a century or two ago, and we haven't even remotely adjusted to that as parents or as teachers. I don't agree with the blanket approach of showing the entire class a basic sex-ed film in fifth grade (or so) when half the class has known about this stuff and more for years thanks to their parents or their own research, while the other half isn't remotely ready to be scarred by such subject matter. Unfortunately, I haven't gotten past the stage of "desired final structure" in my noodling on what could replace what we have now. All I know is we need some way of dealing with everyone's different learning styles and rates of development in such a way that no one is either rushed or retarded. I know too many people who either chafe for years before their 18th birthday, or are still unable to take care of themselves when they're in their 50s. *grumble* Shik, I'm sorry to see you get caught in the gears of a cultural blind spot... --Jonah [/QB][/QUOTE]
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