If a teen woman has failed to use contraceptives, and refuses to, or is refused access to pregnancy termination,
you think the best solution is to put the father of that baby in prison?
That really helps a lot?
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Criminalizing the sex lives of young adults (aka teenagers) is just really fucking stupid. It has huge costs and zero benefits. If California's age of consent laws were strictly enforced half the population would be sex offenders by the time they turn 22.
Poorly hidden leftist tendencies
Tits are woke.
be careful out there, men.
Unbelievably arrogant MF from the BBC.
England literally chopped down all their forests, and dug more coal out of the ground than any other country, and burned it all. Nobody has been more of an ecological disaster for our planet than the English. Now this fucker is gonna try to scold Guyana?
Young women aged 14-18 have a right to control their own bodies. These young women deserve the exclusive right to decide if they want to make love, and if they do, with whom, when and how. Twitter randos have exactly zero right to make any comment on their decisions.
Sensationalist media, the Chris Hansen types who make piles of money drumming up hysterical fear of X or Y, love to use words like "predator" and "prey on" because it evokes images that stick in the mind. It gets people emotional. Having a calm rational public is not profitable for them.
Do you actually disagree with anything I've posted?
or do you just randomly vomit bile on total strangers? 😀 😀 😀
Gen X was like 5-years-old during Vietnam, and the Boomers were the ones getting sent there 😀
Fiat currency is awesome.
Those generations screwed up a whole bunch of things, sure. They have plenty to be ashamed of, but the things you cite are not among them 😀
I have eaten dog.
but not rat.
Nobody pays any taxes and the gov't prints money 24/7.
Whhooooooo Hooooooo!!!!! Let's hear it for Nostr Geniuses!!!!
Wow. You're a genius. You have solved public financing forever. Congratulations. Make sure you establish copyright on this fabulous idea, before someone finds out and steals your thunder.
People seem to believe that sad downtrodden billionaires are being taxed 99.65% and the brave trickle-down soldiers are fighting to cut that to 99.3% When in reality they pay like 3% and progressives would like to see that rise to 10%.
I like to learn from the experience of people older than me, but I also like the fresh perspectives of people younger than me. I believe that all age groups can benefit a lot from spending time with other age groups.
Yes, we agree that "not every person fully matures at the same rate"
but the reason for that is not biology.
The main reason people mature faster or slower is their environment. People who are sheltered, protected, locked up, prevented from experiencing things grow up much slower. Young people learn by doing. When their under constant supervision and not allowed to take any risks they don't learn much and they don't grow up. They kinda end up being terrified 20-year-olds, who suddenly have to do their own laundry (a skill most 8 year olds can learn in a few days).
Many hunter-gatherer tribes have average age of first child birth around 16. Those new mothers and fathers have been preparing to be parents their whole lives. They've been baby-sitting younger siblings and cousins etc for as long as they can remember. Given the right experience, the right opportunity, and the right motivations teens can be great parents.
We don't do any of that in our society. We raise our kids differently, so at 16 no one is ready for parenthood. But that is a choice we made. That has nothing to do with mother nature, science, or evolution.
Our brains are largest and fastest around age 13.
So somebody had to go looking for some way to say that older brains are better.
They discovered that white matter gradually increases with age (but the initial studies had no subjects over 25 so the data stopped at that age)... bombastic clickbait bullshit then claimed that you're still a child until 25 when your white matter is complete. Everybody wanted to believe this, so the idiotic oversimplification went viral.
and the difference is minuscule. At age 26 you have about 2% more white matter than at age 16.
and the white matter keeps growing... all through your 30s and well into your 40s. If that's the measure of adulthood we are children until our 50th birthdays.
Here are a few examples of really dumb clickbait based on the very common myth that white matter is what truly makes you an adult.
I have researched it thoroughly.
It's total nonsense.
Neither our bodies nor our brains ever stop changing. Both our bodies and our brains change very quickly during puberty then very slowly for the rest of our lives.
Our 20s are not significant an any way in terms of development.
Teenagers are adults. That's just basic biology. No one reaches "full maturity" in their 20s. That's ridiculous unscientific garbage 😀
We have raised our teens to be totally unprepared for parenthood. Our culture created that. Other cultures historically did things differently and got different results.
We delay starting families now. That's fine. It's still very important to teach young people about sex, contraception, etc. Also important to provide contraception. We know how to prevent unplanned pregnancies. Let's do that.
Women under 22 are not girls. Calling them that is demeaning and degrading. Infantilizing our young adults caused tons of problems. We need to stop doing that immediately.
Young men and women are perfectly capable of choosing their own romantic partners. Some will get hurt. There will be some sad breakups. That is part of life.
It's literally everywhere. You can't be in society and not hear it on a daily basis.
a few examples:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I28wGxF11ss
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Generations Y and Z are so right about so many issues, that I have to admire them. but at the same time they're constantly inventing bizarre Anti-Age-Group-Mixing taboos that make no sense and cause enormous harm.
Dan Siegel says, with a straight face, in front of an audience, and cameras, that: Adolescence used to last 2 years but now it lasts anywhere from 12 to 20 years. 6 to 10 times longer. For no reason. It just happened. Dan Siegel is batshit crazy.
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