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01 Jul 2010, 6:07 am

zen_mistress wrote:
It could be to stop a pervy man talking about sex to a 13 year old, for instance, and chatting her up. Any owner of a website would get into trouble if that happened on their site. It is a blanket rule. I remember being annoyed at similar rules when I was younger. When I was 18 I wanted to drink in pubs but once we got pulled out of the bar by the police as we were underage. Unfair, but how it went and there was nothing I could do about it (though I did get a fake ID afterwards :) )


18 = underage? 18 is the legal drinking age here, I don't see why it would be anything above that, I always thought when you turn 18 you're a legal adult everywhere.



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01 Jul 2010, 6:16 am

When I was 18, people couldnt drink in bars until they were 20. This got weird at uni because you would have some people in the class who were 18 or 19 and some who were 20, so only half the class could go to the student pub.....

Now the law has been changed to 18.



In the US it still has the drinking age as 20 or 21 I believe


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01 Jul 2010, 11:14 am

yeah it's 21 here.


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01 Jul 2010, 11:23 am

So UK > US when it comes to doing things legally as a youngster then :P



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01 Jul 2010, 12:44 pm

In 2006 the minimum age for becoming a UK Member of Parliament was cut from 21 to 18. There has been some talk of dropping it to 16. However, that would result in the somewhat anomalous situation of a person being able to be voted in, who could not actually cast a vote.

The UK voting age is 18, and that is the same age at which a person legally becomes an "adult" here.

Smoking and drinking are freely allowed at 18, too, except that a shop can legitimately refuse to serve someone if they do not look 21 and cannot provide any proof of age.

Oddly, a full car driving licence can be had at age 17 and sex comes a year before that.


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01 Jul 2010, 12:49 pm

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I was thinking I should add, with respect to Asp-Z's question, and my response about why teens shouldn't be talking about this stuff with strange adults, is that a large part of it relates to value formation. Your parents may not share my views or that of another adult and may not take too well to an opinion on a touchy subject I or others might have. The whole area involves a lot of ethics, values, priorities, and morality. It is the place of the adults in your life to provide that context; they don't want it to come from someone they don't know, and it shouldn't. The context has a lot to do with life experience and other things unique to you and your family.
It really does depend on the family and the individual. As a child my public and school libraries had an adult section where the kept controversial books, books with adult language, and books covering adult topics. I was eleven when my mother went to the different libraries to fill out forms that said my reading list was not to be censored. I did that with my kids by not censoring their internet use. I still think it is much better for parents and kids to discuss what they read and hear, than to try to shelter them from the world.


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01 Jul 2010, 12:50 pm

Mudboy wrote:
DW_a_mom wrote:
I was thinking I should add, with respect to Asp-Z's question, and my response about why teens shouldn't be talking about this stuff with strange adults, is that a large part of it relates to value formation. Your parents may not share my views or that of another adult and may not take too well to an opinion on a touchy subject I or others might have. The whole area involves a lot of ethics, values, priorities, and morality. It is the place of the adults in your life to provide that context; they don't want it to come from someone they don't know, and it shouldn't. The context has a lot to do with life experience and other things unique to you and your family.
It really does depend on the family and the individual. As a child my public and school libraries had an adult section where the kept controversial books, books with adult language, and books covering adult topics. I was eleven when my mother went to the different libraries to fill out forms that said my reading list was not to be censored. I did that with my kids by not censoring their internet use. I still think it is much better for parents and kids to discuss what they read and hear, than to try to shelter them from the world.


This, IMO, is the best approach. After all, you can't keep the world hidden from kids forever.