ReJunged

 

Thinking about what I wrote in 'Too young for Jung' it struck me that I may have left the misleading impression that I'm something of a libertarian when it comes to adolescent sex.  Few things could be further from the truth - particularly when it comes to my own family.  In my opinion youngsters under 16 - or for that matter under 18 - who are still at school and therefore completely dependant on their parents for housing, food, clothing and everything else have no business wasting good homework and revision time on illicit and unwise rumpy with unsuitable boy or girl friends.  (If they feel they need to experience the joys of adulthood at first hand then they should be allowed to do the weekly supermarket shop single-handedly or clean the household lavatories. <g>)

But mine is an objection to under age sex of a very different order from objecting on the basis that the sex itself is harmful to teenagers - it's not that the sex is bad for them, but that underage sex is a distraction from the main task of adolescence - ie learning that only those who can be responsible for potential outcomes have the right to make independant choices and that without personal responsibility there can be no right.