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IN MY last two columns, I have mentioned the case of young people, sex offenders, registrars, because their sexual partners were under the age of consent. For the rest of their lives, all the neighbors or employers, she sees the Web, which may be to believe they are paedophiles.

This raises a number of questions, including: What is the right age of consent?

The minimum legal age is different everywhere. In Yemen, it is 9, but because you have to be married. In Mexico, you can legally have sex as early as 12 In the United States, the age varies from state and ranges from 16 to 18 hours.

In the “20/20″ I spoke with a boy of 18 who had sexual intercourse with a girl four years younger. Is not the benefit of 14 years? I asked.

“I would not think so. I thought I was really gonna relationship.”

What happens, when they were 13?

“I can not answer that question because … This is not it. ”

What happens, when they were 12?

“Oh, heck no. There is a point where the limit somewhere.”

But where? The law is at odds with what is in real life. The Centers for Disease Control reports that one-quarter of American teenagers say they have had sex before 16. Since no State of the age of consent is lower, millions of Americans are opposed to the law.

Some groups, like the Family Research Council, say that the laws should be more strict.

“We are against the efforts to reduce [at the age of the agreement],” Peter Sprigg, vice president for policy, I said.

But 17 years are still to have sex.

“Well, they are. But I think that’s a legitimate goal, public policy to discourage.”

Making it illegal discouraged?

“There is probably some deterrent. This is what all our laws.”

Family Counselor Dr. Marty Klein agreement.

“The idea that we have 14 years criminalize” oral sex or sex trafficking 16 years, which is a solution to a terrible subtle and complex subject. ”

Klein called the criminalization of sexual activity America’s War on Sex.

“Telling a child to just say no, and they expect not to have sex, that is to say as someone who is depressed, one fine day, and expects that its repeal depression. ”

Some States creates legal exceptions for rape laws to their children, who are in the vicinity of age. They are seen as “Romeo and Juliet” are exceptions, because Romeo and Juliet were nearly age. But I bet, the legislature would be surprised to learn that Shakespeare’s Juliet was only 13

Klein said: “We trust 15 years in all decisions in time. We give you access to credit cards. We are 16 - and 17 years old, driving a car. The idea that someone , behind the wheel of a car is not good sexual decisions, I think more about our concern about sex, as it is a clear thought of more than 17 years. ”

But the Family Research Council’s Sprigg, none of this. “Emphasis should be placed on young people to say that sex, marriage must be saved. Advantages of this time is enormous.”

If they are too young, God gave them willing organic? I asked him.

“Well, in some ancient cultures, it is perfectly suited for young people to marry, and a family as quickly as their bodies were biologically ready for reproduction. But we live in a totally different culture and young men of today Today they needed more time before Du marriage, but they do not have sex before marriage. ”

What does the law say there is no proof that the age of consent laws to discourage sex before marriage. Many children who do not even know what the age of consent.

Something is very wrong if the young people to do what hundreds of thousands of other children are condemned for life to the inclusion of sex alongside real rapists and paedophiles. There is no justice in it.