Legal for Sex, illegal for Work
For some time now, the debate over the age of consent and whether it should be moved from 16 has been brewing.
The age of consent is the age at which a person can legally give permission to engage in acts such as sex.
The question that many parents are asking is how can a child give permission to engage in adult activities?
Under the law, a child is a person under 18 years and is to be treated differently from adults, hence a special court, bus fare, hospital, medication, etc.
The present consent age does not sit well with parents who are faced with their 16-year-old daughter being legal to give consent to sex.
She is able to take on adult circumstances but not the responsibilities; as if she beomes pregnant she cannot be legally employed to earn funds to take care of a child.
According to the Child Care and Protection Act, a person should have attained 18 years or over in order to drink, smoke, vote, enter a nightclub and acquire a driver’s licence, but the law gives permission to a ‘minor’ to consent to sex.
This goes to show how misguided and twisted our leaders are.
Raising the age of consent can in no way prevent underage sex, but it will show children that it is an adult activity and only adults should engage in it as it would now become a criminal matter.
Children are often forced to grow up long before their age can allow.
Their bodies, along with a consent age at 16, trick them into thinking that they are mature enough for adulthood.
Did the law take into consideration the best interest of the child?
Let us get our act together.
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The law is controversial and Biology is controversial. Girls start menstruating as early as nine years old which gets them ready for making babies but the hip widens upwards of eighteen and the assumption is that’s for easier passage through the birth canal. Then again, some women remain narrow their entire lives, meaning their hip measurement remains the same from. I think readiness for adult behaviour is both Biology and level of maturity which speaks directly to how mature our parents are and many are not, sadly.
At 16 most teenagers are still (or should be) in high school and are not responsible for themselves. So how comes they are legal to have sex, but are not really active members of the adult society? I definitely believe that the age of consent should be raised to 18 and children taught to abstain, refrain and wait,… They are practically still kids, and you see kids having kids ad no family structure to support the offspring.
This is kinda tricky.. I remember when I was young. Teens are going to have sex. Changing the law would only benefit school boys and keep away older men.