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Edit avatar · 04:47 PM

I agree with ShimmeringFairie. If they are not mature enough they are not going to make mature decisions and in essence that is what I was trying to point out. Sometimes people have sex and they are not mature enough to make that decision and they do. They made a mistake, a very very stupid mistake.

I am going to mention this but I seriously don't know where I can find more information on it. I read it in a book and also heard it mentioned on 20/20 or something. But a study was done and it proved that the 'full concept' of sex was not something a 16 year old or even really a 17 year old could understand. Their brains are not mature enough. They gave information about what they meant by them not being mature enough but I seriously only read it is passing. I don't even like bringing it up because I cannot actually support it with quotes but my point of bringing it up is yes young girls and boys are having sex but they are not actually mature enough to do so. It is, at least in society today, part of their living and learning process that everyone goes through.

I know 10 or 11 or 12 is not an age to give consent but that was why I put it in ' '. Because there are 14 year old girls that get pregnant and people say 'they gave consent they need to deal with it.' I feel they are too young. Truthfully I think till a child reaches 18 they really are too young to give consent.

As for age of consent it is different all over I found this link http://www.avert.org/age-of-consent.htm (I don't know how accurate it is but I am sure it is okay). Here is shows how varying the age of consent is some places it is 16 some places it is 18. And you can see a bias when it comes to boy/girls. Girls need to be at an older age to give consent and in some places boys can be as young as 12. Why is that? Neither person at that age can give consent.

And, so if some consent ages are 18 does that mean in some states/countries abortion should be legal for the age group of 17 and younger? And then in other countries/states abortion is open to 16 and young etc? I think that is what makes it hard there are no right or wrong when it comes to this subject. There truly is no easy way for people to make laws regarding it.

Because in the end these laws are going to exclude some group that has suffered from the pregnancy. Or what not.

Edit: Laws of consent don't seem to mean much in places, at least america, unless the person is 23 and the other person is 16 or whatever. Besides that no one gets in trouble for having sex before the age of consent. A 16 year old girl and a 16 year old boy won't get in trouble for having sex so what is the point of age of consent? To make laws for sex offenders and what not.

Maybe if kids realized there was an age of consent for sex. Were educated on it all stuff like this would not be prominent. Ignorance, in my opinion, feeds into the early sex age for kids. And maybe if there was more education we would notice a decline in teen pregnancies and abortion. At my high school we had health class we did one weeks worth of learning about sex and we had someone from planned parenthood come out. This is not enough and this is the not the right age to start but parents view sex as 'taboo'. Two kids in my high school sex class got to skip class the days we learned about sex because there parents did not want them too. They got to miss class with the teachers knowledge and everything. There were also a handful of kids (might have been more but these were the only ones I had heard of) that got to waive this class completely because of the talk of sex, pregnancy, STD's, etc. I really think if there was less ignorance and less secrecy on the subject of sex it could hep and it should start at an earlier age.