Needing parental consent is hardly an adult thing. It strikes me as very childlike in nature.Being allowed to get married with parental consent is still being allowed to get married.
All I was responding to is the claim that she is a child. As far as I'm concerned if you can legally have sex and therefore your own children you are not a child. At 16 I was always called a young adult and not a child. It strikes me as odd to call someone who has left school a child.
@Sunstone
Anyone can have sex. It’s not rocket science. Teenagers experimenting with their newfound hormones is hardly what I think of when I think of adult behaviour.
Having children is also merely a case of basic puberty (and even then there are rather disturbingly young mothers in the world records book, if you get me?)
Miss Greta can’t even buy alcohol legally yet. She’s a whippersnapper lol
And you guys finish school at 16? Dang!. Where I live you have to attend school until you’re at least 17. The only exceptions are if you’re doing a trade apprenticeship or you’re going to tertiary/higher education.
At 16 I was considered a kid, a minor, a teenager. Perhaps “child” is a little inflammatory.
But remember in America, where I am assuming Mr Sunstone hails from, a lot of states don’t consider even 18 year olds to be proper adults. With consent ages ranging from 18 - 21!
So it doesn’t surprise me if someone who is American refers to a 16 year old as a child, in all honesty. I wouldn’t go that far myself. I think of them as a “kid,” maybe. But Americans might even treat an 18 year old like a child, depending on the state in question.
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