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	<title>Comments on: Debra Lafave, Media Sensationalism, and Rethinking Statutory Rape</title>
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		<title>By: daveinga</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2007 03:55:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>my mother had me when she was 17. her mother had her when she was 16 and her mother had her when she was 16. we actually had 5 generations alive twice in my immediate family in my lifetime. i recently read that Mary was around 14 when she had Jesus. uncomfortable subject? you bet. 

so let&#039;s shoot straight here. our ancestors married younger, had children younger, and stayed married a lot longer. we live somewhat longer, but we aren&#039;t talking about old age here. we are talking about youth. 

since we are shooting straight here, let&#039;s not forget that our forefathers were quite a bit older than their average brides. western scieties look down on all of this and give all of it nasty names. sentences men to loooong terms in prison for what our revered ancestors (for thousands of years) did as a matter of recourse. and they actually stayed married until death do us part.

don&#039;t get me wrong, we all see that in today&#039;s society 14 and 15 year old children should be allowed to grow up. but isn&#039;t it the height of hypocracy for us to put an arbitrary age like 18 as when a girl becomes a woman, and God help the man who touches her before that? it also shows a lack of respect for our ancestors judgement, especially since they had great respect for things like marriage and the family, and actually knew how to make them work. 

isn&#039;t it also weird that now when women are finally starting to be prosecuted for being with underage boys some people want to start &quot;rethinking&quot; the whole issue?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>my mother had me when she was 17. her mother had her when she was 16 and her mother had her when she was 16. we actually had 5 generations alive twice in my immediate family in my lifetime. i recently read that Mary was around 14 when she had Jesus. uncomfortable subject? you bet. </p>
<p>so let&#8217;s shoot straight here. our ancestors married younger, had children younger, and stayed married a lot longer. we live somewhat longer, but we aren&#8217;t talking about old age here. we are talking about youth. </p>
<p>since we are shooting straight here, let&#8217;s not forget that our forefathers were quite a bit older than their average brides. western scieties look down on all of this and give all of it nasty names. sentences men to loooong terms in prison for what our revered ancestors (for thousands of years) did as a matter of recourse. and they actually stayed married until death do us part.</p>
<p>don&#8217;t get me wrong, we all see that in today&#8217;s society 14 and 15 year old children should be allowed to grow up. but isn&#8217;t it the height of hypocracy for us to put an arbitrary age like 18 as when a girl becomes a woman, and God help the man who touches her before that? it also shows a lack of respect for our ancestors judgement, especially since they had great respect for things like marriage and the family, and actually knew how to make them work. </p>
<p>isn&#8217;t it also weird that now when women are finally starting to be prosecuted for being with underage boys some people want to start &#8220;rethinking&#8221; the whole issue?</p>
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		<title>By: Artfldgr</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2007 03:09:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Why?

thats easy. Since the game is to put off birth till you cant have kids, having a law like this prevents families starting young. 

back then, people wanted families to be healthy, and with grandparents assitance and best genetics, and the ability of the young to be more fit. they also had more influence and participation in the relationships as well, so they saw less of a problem and less of a situation where the young was left alone with the old. back then they may have been split in a way that is illegal today, but he never would have been alone with here to work on her the way someone could today. 

we lost the unity in which we were allowed to look after each other and to use many things to make better choices.  society and family looking out after children who become adults, meant that they could have those relationships (as someone who was not sincere would not be allowed to have her company). children with no familes, like those raised by the state, are not looked after, are on their own, and so there is nothing to mediate it. making an agency to do it costs too much, and so it serves better to make it illegal. you assume the worst and ignore the few that wouldnt be since their getting hitched in love so early is against ideology.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Why?</p>
<p>thats easy. Since the game is to put off birth till you cant have kids, having a law like this prevents families starting young. </p>
<p>back then, people wanted families to be healthy, and with grandparents assitance and best genetics, and the ability of the young to be more fit. they also had more influence and participation in the relationships as well, so they saw less of a problem and less of a situation where the young was left alone with the old. back then they may have been split in a way that is illegal today, but he never would have been alone with here to work on her the way someone could today. </p>
<p>we lost the unity in which we were allowed to look after each other and to use many things to make better choices.  society and family looking out after children who become adults, meant that they could have those relationships (as someone who was not sincere would not be allowed to have her company). children with no familes, like those raised by the state, are not looked after, are on their own, and so there is nothing to mediate it. making an agency to do it costs too much, and so it serves better to make it illegal. you assume the worst and ignore the few that wouldnt be since their getting hitched in love so early is against ideology.</p>
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