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To: sitetest

That’s reasonable. As others have suggested, maybe a better legal approach would have been to charge the parents with neglect, as if the children had committed vandalism or something like that. There should be some accountability, in aid of motivating people to use better judgment!


40 posted on 09/30/2013 6:34:34 AM PDT by Tax-chick (I'm not crazy ... I'm just not you.)
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To: Tax-chick
Dear Tax-chick,

I don't think I'd hold parents accountable for the randy acts of young-uns on the verge of physical maturity. I'm old enough to know folks (older than me) who married, yes, married, at age 15. And stayed married. And raised good families, and grew to old age with each other.

I read a headline the other day announcing adolescence extended to 25. Culturally, that's where we may be at. Psychologically, that's perhaps what our society has done to younger folks.

But physically, most boys and girls are ready for parenthood no later than age 14 - 16, and plenty, a whole lot earlier. Passing laws to punish the parents of children who figure that out doesn't seem to me to be wise.


sitetest

41 posted on 09/30/2013 6:40:29 AM PDT by sitetest (If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
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