Please give specifics. Do you want laws against child sex abuse repealed?
Come on, you said they were a failure, so do you want them on the books in Florida and elsewhere, and enforced, or pulled?
A yes or no would suffice, since it appears you have difficulty in focusing on answers.
The above was your quote to me...
As to Florida age of consent laws, and by extension, those in other states, I agree with age of consent laws because we have fallen far from the self reliant, family oriented people we once were.
However, I suggest a clause be placed in such laws as will allow parents & child to request a court wavier unless the state can prove beyond shadow of a doubt that greater harm would come from the parental/child decision than from the statute.
I would add that such a case should be held in closed court to protect the family’s privacy.
If such a clause were written so as to give preference to the family decision, then I propose this to be a balancing of the obvious need for societal norms with the particular needs/decisions of such families as wish an exception.
Courts balance competing rights. In my proposal, the right/need of the society for norms in this area are balanced against parental rights.
Really, to an extent not really known to me, in Florida this can be done by the child and parent applying for “Emancipated female” status. I don’t know if Florida law allows such a status for males, but I would assume so.
Government has to have the right to rule. But if the parent is to be the final authority in family matters, as was the case for most of history, then some balance must be found. At least until we regain a family based America rather than the Nanny State we presently are growing.
I proposed this rather earlier in this thread, but it seems to have been ignored.