Is it normal to think age of consent laws should be abolished?

The human brain is not completely developed until around 18-20 years of age.

Consent laws are not just about sex.

You're attracted to a little girl aren't you?

No.

Yes some young people think they know everything and think they're "mature" enough to handle an adult relationship....

but when mommy & daddy are still paying the bills ... they don't know what "mature" really is yet.

Normal, but not good.

The problem is we live in a society. Not a pack, not a heard, a society. And last I checked, the body is not always completely sexually mature until around 18 or so. Just because you menstruate does not mean that your body is capable of bearing and giving birth to a child.

In our society, a child having a child is a detrimental thing because the VAST MAJORITY of children are not capable of survival by their own means yet, let alone the raising of children.

And popping out children with Alpha-males and then finding a man with a good job afterwards? What are you, 15? She pops out the babies and then what? How is she going to support them when deadbeat daddy hits the road? How is a 13 year old going to possibly have the resources to support these children? How can a 13 year old, with minimal brain developement, who is just barely able to perform basic abstract reasoning skills, going to get a job, make enough money to support kids and raise the kids? And does this man with a good job just magically appear out of nowhere? Who says he will even want to raise another man's offspring?

Your theory is so horribly flawed that it is ridiculous. If these age of consent laws are invented by the church then the church did the world a favor. A 13 year old is not nearly developed enough, physically or neurologically, to care for offspring and with parents of the same kind, they are probably still barely developed enough to even figure out what the hell is going on.

The age of consent does vary from country to country, in the UK, it's 16, Austria it is 15 and so on and on.

But I think 16 is a sensible age, most people know about protection and what they do/don't want to do at that point.

Age of consent here is 16, which is OK, but I think 15 would be more appropriate.

I partly agree with your conclusion, and some of your premises are definitely factual, but I'm completely lost on how you connect the two.

Not normal. What your implying is a little sick.

1) You having sex at 13 has nothing to do with age of consent; you were not getting fucked by a 30 year old and liking it.

2) In the animal kingdom, of which we are a part of, there are different phyla, classes, orders, and families, genera, and species for practical purposed. Like, to tell us that the human is behaviorally and morphologically different from a mountain lion. If two species can't bread to make viable offspring, there is no ground for assuming that they both should be reproducing at the same time within their own species.

3) Menstruation is usually one of the first, if not the first, events of puberty. And if your going to make the argument that age of consent should be reined in until menstruation, why should people bother drawing a line, I mean really, what is a year or two or five?

What you're advocating is not children having sex with themselves, which they already legally do, but adults having sex with defenseless children.

Which brings up the issue: children have no rights. You give a child the right to have sex, OR RATHER, take away his/her right to not have sex...why not just throw em' in a cage and feed em' kitty litter? Or, how about give them all their other rights, like driving, voting, buying stocks, or starting a business? I mean GOLLY GOSH they are menstruating and growing pubes! They're like fun-sized adults!

I pretty much agree with the other comments; the brain isn't fully developed until a certain age. Plus two people with a significant age gap (15+ years) are most likely at different stages in life. But the older you get the less age matters.

Sometimes laws are quite contradictory. Take for example, The United Nations, The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Article 2, stipulaltes that everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms, without distinction of any kind. It does not state it specifically, but I think that age should be included in this list. Article 7 reinforces this, as all are entitled to equal protection against any discrimination. I feel that many laws, in many jurisdictions, in fact, do discriminate based on the age of the individual. Article 16 contains several problems. It pre-supposes a 'traditional' marriage that is usually founded within religious ideology. It has become quite common in some societies for non-traditional families to occur. It does not address these. I feel that it is important for a child's development to have both a male and female role model. This is why I think that this section should be amended to include Mosuo-type family units. It also says that men and women of "full" age can marry. What exactly, is a "full age"? To me a "full age" is 135 years old. It also pre-supposes religious tenets that people do not have sexual relationships prior to marriage. In many societies, sexual relationships are common or even encouraged prior to marriage, but sex and sexual intercourse are often confused.
Although adolescents are sexually mature at a younger age (especially in obese children), this does not mean that they are physically able to safely reproduce or that they are mentally mature enough to raise a family or that they are economically in a position to raise a family. This is why contraception is absolutely essential.
I feel that laws, not just Age of Consent laws, should be structured such that a person becomes entitled based on ability and maturity, not age. This would put the onus on an individual to act responsibly and maturely, rather than sometimes draconian laws being imposed on people, often with harsh punishments for violation.
As far as adolescent sexuality goes, I think that an adolescent should be defined as a person who has entered puberty and is not mature enough to have voting
rights. I think that laws pertaining to adolescent sexuality should be structured such that if either partner is deemed to be an adolescent, their sexual partner should not be greater than two years in age differential.
I will advocate to young people to change these laws, but before the minions rise up, be certain to have an adult that supports your position.

I used to think kinda like this (I wanted the age to be lowered to about 15), but the more I thought about it, the more it made sense that they made it 18. I guess 17 would be ok, but I wonder about the mind of a teenager sometimes, especially seeing how my sister acts.:(

I knew some teens that were very self disiplined and mature, but most of the teens I knew (When I was a teen) seemed like they didn't even have a brain in their body.

It seems many do everything their friends want them to do just to fit in.

Wow, this is some backwards logic. Im i living in a communist country and your kim jong? nothing you said made any real sense