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That's not what I said. If you note, I said I think that laws should be narrowly written in order to go after adults who exploit children. For teenagers who engage in that kind of behavior I think they should be forced to take mandatory sexuality classes that explains proper sexual behavior in our country and our nation's sex laws. I also think that we should discern between non-violent sex crimes and violent sex crimes as well. A 14-year-old boy who has sex with his girlfriend shouldn't be put on the same level as a 50-year-old man who violently rapes a younger child. A 15-year-old girl who e-mails pics of boobies to her boyfriend should not be treated the same as an adult who runs an underground child porn ring for money.
Well, all I said- which you claimed not to agree with- was that it's very difficult to protect teens from sexual exploitation by themselves.
When teens have sex with each other, or engage in sexting with their peers, or lie about their ages and use fake IDs in order to participate in softcore "Girls Gone Wild" style porn, or disseminate sexy pictures of themselves a la Vanessa Hudgens... I'm not sure that the law doesn't make things a lot worse when it attempts to intervene.
My perspective on this may be different because I was a teen mom; in fact, I was already a married mom of two by the time I was seventeen.
My family's view on this was not, "Oh you poor victimized child!"
It was, "You chose to do this; now you're no longer a child but a very young grown-up responsible for her own children. Get married, get a job, take care of your kids, and call us if there's some kind of emergency you can't handle."
This attitude served me a lot better in the long run than a punitive approach, or even the whole "poor victimized child" routine, would've.
I've never felt like a victim.
I've never understood why we try to force people to remain children for more than a quarter of their lives.
It doesn't really work, for most people.