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When dating someone of an older or younger age, they tend to have different
life goals that could complicate a relationship. For instance, the younger
persons goal may be to graduate school, while the older members goal may
be to find a stable job, and settle down with someone.
The younger member may not be ready for such a major commitment of settling down with a
partner, which can lead to arguments and other challenges
Family members may be unsupportive of such an age gap in a relationship,
leading to arguments, a lack of trust, and a general uneasiness about family
member in the relationship
May cause the family member in the relationship to feel a sense of unbelonging in their family
Consent of Age: Dating Cont
Arising Problems Cont.
The younger member of the relationship could tend to feel pressured into
activities that the older members expects them to do. For example, the older
person may be ready to have sex way before the younger person is; therefore, the
younger member could feel pressured into have sex (which they dont want)
Ethics
Lowering or ridding the age consent would make it technically legal for someone
of much older age, such as 26, to be dating one much younger, such as 15. Many
members of society tend to frown upon these behaviors. Such an age gap is not as
big a difference in mid adulthood as it is in late adolescence/early adulthood, since
the younger member is not as mature.
Con the age should be lowered
By lowering the age of consent we could protect the younger people. There
gonna do it anyway so lowering the age will help parents take the steps they
need to keep anything from happening.
If children are told by thier parents that they shouldnt do something they most
likely are.
Consent laws come from Great Britan when sex was male privlage and if a
women does have sex she loses her virtue.
Is it right for someone to have consentual sex with someone under the age of 18
and be deemed a statory rapist and be stuck in prison with actual rapist,
arsonist and kidnappers.
The age should be lowered cont.
Humans know right from wrong. Even when there around 7 years old.
The age of consent laws are to protect people from predators. However if a
College freshman ask a high school junior on a date its hardly a preditory
situation.
A child is biologically someone who hasnt entered puberty. Girls on average hit
puberty between 10 and 14.
Quotes
Having sex at 12 is a bad idea. But if you're pubescent, it might be, in part, your bad idea.
Conversely, having sex with a 12-year-old, when you're 20, is scummy. But it doesn't
necessarily make you the kind of predator who has to be locked up."-Will Saletan
We cannot categorize all of them as "innocent little children." After puberty, most teens know
what sex is.
It will not prevent teens having sex, but maybe encourage them to have more sex.
Nothing, not social stigma, not poor sex education or sheltering, not threats, has ever kept
teenagers from having sex. All you produce with such nonsense as "abstinence only sex
education" is pitifully uninformed and ignorant kids who engage in unprotected risky behaviors.
believe that the age of consent shouldn't be raised. It will do more harm than good and means
arresting more people for making love with people they trust and care for
Stats
30 states set the general age of consent at sixteen; 8 set it at seventeen; and 12 set it at eighteen
(though its possible that the last there are actually 7 at seventeen and 13 at eighteen
Canada has also settled upon 16. French law sets the age of majority, in matters of romance, at
15. Our other closest cultural and moral allies fall into a similar range: Belgium (16), Denmark
(15), Germany (14-16), Greece (15), Holland (16), Italy (14), Norway (16) and Sweden (15).
The outliers are even lower, not higher, such as Spains threshold of 13.
New York licenses at the age of 12 (versus 17 for intercourse) and California allows at 16
(versus 18 for sex).
1.3 million people die in road crashes each year 200 teenage girls die in childbirth every day.
Conclusion