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In reply to the discussion: Is it okay for a 18 year old to have sex with a 14 year old [View all]LadyHawkAZ
(6,199 posts)and I appreciate the thought you've put into it.
I have among my acquaintances right now a young lady of 17 (daughter of a friend) who is in a relationship with a transgender boy of 19. They've been living together since she was 16 and he 18, and started dating when they were 15 and 17. This case is really breaking my heart- every time I see a news report about Kaitlyn Hunt, what I see in my mind is the faces of those two kids. If my friend were not such an accepting and loving parent, it could so easily be those two in this same situation, with her boyfriend facing felony charges and being bashed as a pedophile or a rapist- and yet those two adore each other, and he's nothing of the kind.
It's sheer cruelty to tell a teenager they need to either abandon someone they love or face prison time because they have just passed an arbitrary marker and their loved one has not.