Posted on 12/12/2010 5:15:51 AM PST by marktwain
My Dad was exactly the same way. He always expected to know exactly where we were going and when we would be home. None of us dated until we were 16. The guy always came in to pick me up; no horn blowing in the driveway. If there was any danger of me being late it was expected for me to call, or else! There were a lot of drive-in eateries when I was dating (like in Happy Days) and it was normal for me to look up and see Dad in his car somewhere watching us. LOL We kept him busy during our teenage years. He had three girls that were two years apart. It was his duty to protect our virtue at any cost or inconvenience. :-)
Age of Consent -- Tennessee's rule on the age of consent, the age at which a girl (or boy) can legally consent to sexual relations is unforgiving. Under T.C.A 39-13-506, if an adult has sex with a minor less than 18 years old, and the adult (anyone older than 18) is at least four years older than the minor, the adult just committed statutory rape, a Class E felony, carrying up to six years in prison. (Though the law is supposed to be applied the same whether the minor is a boy or girl, these situations almost always involve underage girls, so that is what I will refer to.) Now, the unforgiving part of the law is that it makes no difference how old the girl looked, or said she was, or what the man thought her age was -- if she was under age, then sex with her was a felony.
The only exception is if the girl is married to her sexual partner. Then it doesn't matter if she is under age, or if the man she is with (her husband) is more than four years older than she is.
If the girl was between 13 and 14, then her boyfriend could be convicted of Statutory Rape if he was four years older than her, even if he is also a minor. If the girl is less than 13, then she can not consent to have sex with anyone, and sexual contact with the girl is Aggravated Sexual Battery, a class B felony, meaning you could do up to 30 years in prison, even if the girl consented, started it, had previously had sex with others or even was working as a prostitute, and even if you are a minor yourself when you have sex with her.
What this means is that if the girl is between age 13 and 18 she can consent to have sex with someone up to four years older than she is, but for anyone older than that it is statutory rape, and for any girl less than 13, she is too young to consent to having sex with anyone. The sole exception is that if the girl was legally married to her sexual partner at the time they had sex.
When my older daughter was 16, we lived in town and there was three young men renting the house two down and across the street from us.
Anyway she took a liking to this one clean cut young fella and started spending time after school at his house. My wife mentioned this to me so one afternoon when I was driving home, I saw him out washing his car. I pulled up next to, introduced myself as the rancher who lives across the street. We shook hands and I asked how old he was. He replied 21. I told him my daughter was 16 and that she would be allowed to see him one more time, outside in front of his house. He said, “Yessir”. No debate, no angry words, he knew that I knew.
I pulled the horse trailer up against the side of the house and went in for a shower. My daughter was waiting for me when I came out of the bedroom. She thought it was just terrible that I was controlling her life and deciding who she was going to be friends with. I told her he was 21 and looking for a woman not a young girl to be friends with.
Anyway, that was the end of that relationship. About five years later she gave me a hug and said she was glad I cared enough to break off her friendship with the man across the street.
“Could you please tell me what kind of 22 year old male (who would be 4 years out of high school) would be dating a 16 year old female (who would be in the 10th grade in High School)?”
Someone who was sent overseas on behalf of the US Gov’t, and not subject to UCMJ.
And the age of consent in Michigan is 16, by the way.
You have the only sane repsonse on this thread. Todays parents think they can control the little bastards. They better think again. Their precious offspring will put them in the slammer for a long time. Talk big people. An out of control teenager needs to be treated like an adult.
The problem with your idea is what happens AFTER you “let the little twit go” and she returns home pregnant or with a baby in her arms. Few parents can turn their grandchild out. {:0(
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