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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Your little girl is grown up. People used to be married at 16.[/quote]

More than 120 years ago. Wake up. She is still a little girl[/quote]

Lol no? People got married at 16 all the time in the 50s and still do now occasionally. The people in front of us at the courthouse when we got married were 16.[/quote]

I don't get this attitude.  It was normal 60+ yrs ago for 16 yrs olds to get married.  It was also normal back then for girls to not go to college; it was normal back then to not wear seatbelts, let 6 yr olds walk to the park with their 10 yr old sibling, to be a latchkey kid.  It was also normal to have segregation and not allow inter-racial relationships.  It was normal back then for girls to not start their period until they were about 13/14.  Now, it's normal to start as young as 9.   Why is it that some things that were "normal" back then is still normal now, but not other things?  Because times do change.  And "normal" is all relative.  In other cultures, it is not normal for 16 yr olds to be having sex in their parents' house.

I agree with another PP.... accidents happen. No birth control is 100%.  So, if you are prepared to help raise your grandchild or have your DD go through an abortion, then good for you.  And I bet these people are the same ones that tsk tsk at low-income 16 yr olds having sex, even if they use protection, and then accidentally get pregnant.

Why are parents responsible for 16 yr olds in every way, except for this?  They are under our health insurance; we have legal control over their health, *except* for this, the one thing that forces them into adulthood - possibly becoming a parent themselves.[/quote]

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