16 yr olds can have sex.Age of consent laws are only enforced at this point against adults who have sex with children. So, why exactly do you want to revoke AOC laws? Do you want to make it legal for 13 year old girls to have sex with 40 year old men?
You did not answer my question, so I'm asking it again, Delta4Embassy
You're misrepresenting what I said, or didn't understand it. I wanna modernize and update existing AoC to better reflect reality, make close-in-age exemptions universal, and have a single AoC nationwide instead of the 16-18 but lower if you get married thing we have now.
Do I support 13 and 40 (or over 18 yo's) being made legal? No. 13 and 16 is reasonable though. A 3 year close in age exemption makes sense. Some states have 4 and 5 year exemptions but think that's too big a spread as a 17 and 12 doesn't make any sense at all.
Yes, well there are also exceptions to the exceptions in many states Romeo-Juliet laws, such as under 12 cannot give consent under any circumstances and that juveniles WILL be prosecuted for having sex with a person under 14, etc.
Ya, below some point it has to be illegal regardless of anything else.
Dunno if they do it here in the US, but a trial period for new laws would be a good idea. Like have a new system imposed for 1 year, then check the results and see if it's worth doing or if something else might be better. So haphazard now though. Aoc of one age, but can get married 2 or 3 years below it and it suddenly becomes legal doesn't make any sense.
Well, I agree that age of consent for sex and marriage should coincide. It really doesn't make any sense that AOC for sex and AOC for marriage would be two different ages.
I think 18 is a good age and not at all arbitrary in today's society. This is the age where most kids have graduated high school and they have at least had some life experiences away from their parents' watchful eyes. They have had an opportunity to be a bit more independent by that age and are probably more likely to make better decisions because they are older and hopefully a bit more mature than a 16-year-old. Although some people would say there isn't much difference between a 16-year-old and an 18-year-old, there is a bit of difference there given the things I stated above. Ideally, IMO, it should probably be even older, but we can't baby them forever.
I think in most cases of 15 and 16-year-olds being sexually active, it is mostly experimentation. They have no desire to really be in a long committed relationship for the rest of their lives. It's also funny that we would never allow for 15 or 16-year-olds to sign any other kind of legally binding contract.
Think 18's just the 'safe' or crowd-pleasing answer because it's the age of adulthood and end of grade school and commencement of adulthood by and large. But there's nothing inherently 'adultish' about age 18. By that standard we let "children" drive two year earlier. If we trust "children" to make informed decisions driving with people lives on the line, isn't it sensible we let them have sex too?