Would US teens want a lower age of consent?

FBM wrote:

Nobody's talking about a doctor giving a permission slip to anyone for a night of banging. It would just be a medical assessment of the person's reproductive maturity.

Great, another chance to add corruption to our lives. No doc is going to say no to sex. The exam only effects the lecture these poor people will have to suffer before the state will allow what I grew up thinking was God given, mine and free. And still mostly do.

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I can't even figure out what the **** you're babbling about.

I think it very interesting that we seem to have no idea what youth thinks of the current AOC laws.

I think it very interesting that we seem to have no idea what youth thinks of the current AOC laws.

hawkeye10 wrote:

I think it very interesting that we seem to have no idea what youth thinks of the current AOC laws.

What teens think about laws to protect them is irrelevant

You don't think the two are actually analogous, do you? Seriously?

I think it very interesting that we seem to have no idea what youth thinks of the current AOC laws.

What teens think about laws to protect them is irrelevant

pretty much that is always the story isn't it, that what we think of what the government does to us does not matter once they claim they did it to protectus.Look at the NSA for example. (emphasis mine)

What teens think about laws to protect them is irrelevant

That's why the laws are written by adults and not by you.

The Government at Westminster has today ignored the will of the people of Northern Ireland and its elected representatives by pushing ahead with plans to lower the age of consent.
A draft sexual offences order was today laid in Parliament by Minister of State, Paul Goggins. It will reduce the age of consent to 16 in the Province.
The move comes in spite of a weight of evidence showing the plan is strongly opposed by the public and politicians of different parties across Northern Ireland.
Just yesterday a majority of MLAs signed a No Day Named motion in the Northern Ireland Assembly saying they were against the proposal.
A public opinion poll published earlier this month showed that three quarters of the public (73 per cent) wanted the age of consent to remain at 17.
In February an Assembly Committee issued a report opposing a reduction. The report was passed unopposed by the full Assembly.
Callum Webster, Northern Ireland Officer of The Christian Institute, said: "This is a slap in the face to the people of Northern Ireland. The public don’t want it. Youth associations don’t want it. Belfast Rape Crisis Centre doesn’t want it. Political parties don’t want it.
"Not only is this undemocratic, but it sends out a dangerous signal to the young people of Northern Ireland. The age of consent is an important child protection measure and lowering it can only cause damage and harm."
In a statement issued by the Northern Ireland Office, Government Minister Paul Goggins said: "The Order also sets the age of consent at 16 in line with the rest of the UK. We are certainly not encouraging 16 year olds to engage in sexual activity. What this is about is defining the age at which a criminal offence takes place even when consent is given."

"Predatory adults would be given legitimacy to focus their attentions on even younger teenagers, and there is a real risk that society would be sending out the message that sex between 14- to 15-year-olds is also acceptable,” said Liz Dux, a lawyer who has represented sex abuse victims of British broadcaster Jimmy Savile. But lowering the age of consent wouldn't prevent the U.K. from prohibiting sexual contact between people of considerable age differences. Communicating an acceptance of sex between two 14-year-olds is much, much different than legitimizing contact between a 14-year-old and a predatory adult. Maybe the law should reflect that distinction—in the U.K. and here