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To: JoJo Gunn

While it would seem abhorrent that persons so young would be having sex it is not really so abnormal historically.

It wasn’t all that long ago that women this young, 12 or 13, were married off and raising families. Granted, life expectancy then was much shorter and it was more a matter of practicality and that children grew to adulthood much earlier given life’s harsh realities then. Hormones are still powerful and hard to resists, especially if there is not a strong adult and moral presence in their life to tell them otherwise.

Today society sexualizes young people more than ever, putting great emphasis on sex as a normal part of growing up and a right of passage. It can also be said that young people are reaching puberty at a younger age than ever before. Some say that hormones injected into the foods we eat are to blame. I don’t know, but anecdotally it doesn’t’ seem too far-fetched.


74 posted on 12/31/2005 1:03:35 PM PST by Caramelgal (I don't have a tag line.... I am a tag line. So tag, you are it.)
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To: Caramelgal
Today society sexualizes young people more than ever....

All the more reason to give them a break, especially considering the amount of people here who seem to constantly promote Hollyweird.

And as I just said in another post, they didn't have an abortion.

What are they to think of certain Freepers passing judgment on them so? We were all imperfect kids once. I can't imagine calling one of my kids a little whore, but some don't seem to mind showing the world their true mettle, and others don't seem to mind running to their defense, which also speaks volumes as to what brand of creature they identify with most.

Off my soapbox....

86 posted on 12/31/2005 1:55:25 PM PST by JoJo Gunn (Help control the Leftist population. Have them spayed or neutered. ©)
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