Go back to the old days, lower the age of consent to 14 (when most people are biologically post-pubescent) with the understanding that society is not to be financially responsible for any outcome.
It sickens me how we prolong "childhood" in this country. It used to be very common for folks to get married in their teens, if they weren't going to college.
I'm with you 100% on that! But the way I would do it would be alot more involved. I would like to re-haul our entire fluffy K-12 educational system...I would like to shave 3 years off of it by getting rid of the worthless self-esteem/sex-ed type crap, the ass-grab in the hallway etc. I would also like to see more progress on the homeschool front. We could also probably shave at least 1 year off of 4 year degrees, getting rid of the
If we could have children educated by 15, they could then attend college, meet their spouses, and start families the right way. They would avoid the prolonged 10+ year sexual repression from puberty until marriage (which virtually no one follows right now because it's impossible).
In this plan, if someone at age 15 or 16 wanted to stay at home with their parents while they comuted or telecommuted to college, than that's fine too becasue they would be done around 18 or 19, and ready to marry and move out of the house etc.
>>If we could have children educated by 15>>
Lowering the school age to 15 wouldn't have prevented the girl in this story from screwing around. It doesn't prevent the 12-year old girls from being whored 100 times (already!!!), so the school age won't work.
Get the rap crap out of pop culture, then make it mandatory for both parents to be equally involved in the kid's life (no using the kid as a pawn for more money), raise your kids yourself (no rental parents).
Unless and until more of us make society unwilling to pay for the stupidities of those we choose to feed, but not rule in their teenage years, nothing will change.
If we could have children educated by 15, they could then attend college, meet their spouses, and start families the right way. They would avoid the prolonged 10+ year sexual repression from puberty until marriage (which virtually no one follows right now because it's impossible).
I would like to add that it would be wonderful to bring married housing back to the campuses across the US.