Posted on 08/26/2024 2:21:04 PM PDT by nickcarraway
6 year olds go to school by train in Japan
The British Navy used to take boys who were younger than that and send them sailing around the world.
be interesting to know if this woman is a liberal or a conservative. remember friends, “conservatives seek agreement while liberals demand compliance” L.Star
Meh. If her son (and his friend) is smart and responsible, and have prepared a firm itinerary, its no big deal.
I could have easily managed it when I was 15-16
The leftist new ethos sexuality’s kids too young and adultizes them to old.
Old enough to whack his wiener off, but too young for a train trip. Ahh, to be a progressive.
I went around a couple countries in Europe when I was 17.
A friend and his brother did a 2 week bicycle tour when he was 14. His brother was 16. His mom made him go to keep an eye on his older brother.
They later opened a bike shop.
In the movie, “Taken”, the hero’s (played by Liam Neeson) daughter is 17-years old who travels to Paris with a friend and is kidnapped.
Probably could have used a better verb than whack off to avoid the double meaning. Had to read it twice.
I spent almost three months backpacking around Europe by myself starting when I was still 17 (turned 18 in London). I had a rail pass and no itinerary at all, just went wherever I happened to go. I might have been a bit young for that at 15, though.
“But many others criticized her, raising all the usual raucous: He’s too young. Anything could have happened. The world is unsafe. And so on.”
Before the Great Migration no one would have given a second thought to teens traveling without adults. Now things are different, but Europeans know it’s best left unsaid.
Maybe that was purposeful, we’ll never know.
Letting a 15 year old go on a trip around Europe without supervision is outrageous.
I backpacked around Europe when I was 16, with my 15 year old buddy. No fixed itinerary, no cell phones, just a collect call to parents once a week to say we were OK. We got separated and both made our way back across the continent safely.
They turned into real men back then. In Britain today, they make pansies out of the boys.
retarded
I was living on my own and in college at 15
You would have to ask the screenwriters to get a definite answer. I suspect that age was less a factor than the sex of the kidnapped victim.
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