Now if an American boy of 18 has sex with a girl in some states aged 17 years and 364 days, he will go to jail. If a man of 50 has sex with a girl only a day older, he will be fine.

Our standards are not clearly defined and now that marriage has become so unfashionable and sex before marriage with multiple partners appears to be becoming the norm - now that advertising and marketing focus on sexualising children with impunity - now that a boy of 18 can be labelled a paedophile for sleeping with a 17 year old girl while a 50 year can sleep with an 18 year old without concern - we are bound to have confusion.

At the moment, the “safety net” put in place only defers the problems of underage mothers raising children until the children, particularly boys, are teenagers. At that point, it is likely that society (i.e. all of us) will or do put up with the consequences, and not just the underage girl who got herself in trouble.

When adults facilitate something for the few who are going to do it anyway the rest are exposed to the idea that (a) it’s not so wrong after all - adults are helping us rather than telling us off and (b) it’s risk-free because adults are going to make it so with advice and contraception. It is not risk-free in many ways.

Our culture makes underage sex acceptable by not condemning it. So more do it. Desexualising our popular culture, offering no assistance to the underage and condemning such sexual activity would not cure the problem but it would lessen it.

Compromise and gradualism is the theme.

Education, media, literary and public behaviour standards have been eroded by the “liberal” idea.

I also agree that as parents we have great responsibility to impart truth and morals.

To confidently achieve that objective my wife and I home educate.

The greatest threat to young morals is lack of self worth and low parental standards and expectations.

Children must know that there is a moral standard
and their parents care deeply about their behaviour.

If we vote for a political future that has no genuine morality or standards then that is what we get.

Contraception is prescribed to them because the fact remains that jailbaits f***!

the contraception is not to promote it but to manage it for those that have taken this step. The alternative is an everrising rate of teenage pregnancies, just as in USA where there is also a rising rate of underage HIV cases, particualrly in those pro-christian states where contraception and sex education is frowned upon.

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If sex weren’t part of children’s everyday lives it might help the problem.

I’d also make the official line that sex under age is wrong - rather than employee health professionals to provide kids with contraception - and rubbish the idea that some 13 and 14 year olds are mature enough to deal with it.

And so on…

GM