If the law decided to move age of consent to 21 in some states or nation wide in the USA?
WAIT! Don't say it's never going to happen. Just imagine that they did for now.. How would it affect society? How would it affect the people in the USA? But the people that had intercourse under 21 or their partner was over 21 annd they were under 21 will not have the law enforced on them, since they did that before the law became in effect.
Be as creative and logical as you can be! GO!
2007-02-16 00:48:57 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Something already seriously wrong with a criminal justice system that jails an 18 year old for having a 16 year old partner (physically). There are thousands of these cases, people in jail who were sincerely (emotionally) mated. Your hypothetical world would find several million more in jail... There is no way they (lawmakers) are going to legislate human nature out of existence.
2007-02-16 01:26:06 · answer #1 · answered by Gunny T 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there would be a lot more people in jail for pointless reasons!
There would be a big revolt most likely. There are people who have pushed for things like this. There was even a big push to make driving 18 and drinking 25. So I can see somebody trying to further regulate sex.
2007-02-16 00:58:03 · answer #2 · answered by Chrissy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It doesn't really matter.
Sex offenders rarely get punished anymore anyway. They usually get 5 years in prison then get out on parole.
If the ACLU get it's way, there won't BE an age of consent.
2007-02-16 01:00:01 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are always questions about the age of consent, I think it should
be about 18, not fifteen and not 21, the one is to old and the other to
young, however the age of consent is not the issue but the fact that
children in the pre-teens are having sex illegally now, and this is one
of the toughest issues parents face today.............................................
Especially the ******* one, because you can get STD's even without
going the whole way...............................................................................
2007-02-16 00:59:58 · answer #4 · answered by gorglin 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would just mean that we would have even more underage pregnancies. The law certainly is not stopping this rise of this trend now, how would raising the age change it?
2007-02-16 00:55:08 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think there would be a lot of angry 20 year olds!
2007-02-16 00:56:24 · answer #6 · answered by Girl 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋