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I certainly hope a 16-year-old girl knows her own mind. If not, she's going to have to learn it pretty quick--18 isn't that far away. Consider that for all we know, she might have been turning 17 the next week. Then in just over a year she'll be considered of age. My point? The age of 18 is incredibly arbitrary.
At 16 you can get a license to drive. The state in which you live will entrust you to operate a motor vehicle in such a manner than does not endanger yourself and others. Yet, at least in California, you can't be trusted to make your own sexual decisions. Yet you can operate something a lot more deadly. In my mind, I would hope that someone who can operate a car can make decisions regarding their own sex life, REGARDLESS of the age of the partner.
I know when I was sixteen my parents had faith in me to make the right decisions, regardless of the age of consent. I know if I have a daughter, I will have the same faith when she is sixteen.
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If I am not better, at least I am different. --Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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