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the G-man said:
On the other hand, I think Batwoman is defining pedophile too broadly. I think it's less a question of a numerical age than a question of the victim's appearance, mental state, whatever.

For example: in NY, the age of consent is 17. In NJ it is (I think) 13 or 14. Does a 20 year old man in NJ "become" a pedophile when he cross the border in NYC simply b/c his 16 year old girlfriend went from being legal to not?

And, as noted above, years ago, it was very common for 13 or 14 year olds (or younger) to wed. Did that make all the men of that generation pedophiles? I doubt it.



Um not really. The article doesn't mention the exact way in which they met, how they became sexually active, etc, etc, etc.

Yes I may be thinking of it in more of a broad sense this time, BUT the fact remains, as the doctor pointed out, an adult had sex with a very young minor, someone who is still considered a child for all intents and purposes, barely a teenager, and got her pregnant.

So her parents gave their permission for them to get married. Let me point something out here that the article left out, we don't know if this is what the girl wanted.

For all we know she could be married to this guy, but not want to be married to him. She's too young to make that decision herself, her parents made it for her and now she's stuck with their decision.

Again, for all we know, they could be stout conservative Christians that think no matter the age, if their kid gets pregnant, then the kid should "do the right thing" and get married. Some parents would say that's what the kid gets for having premarital sex, it's their punishment.

As for unwed mothers. Don't give me that crap. Do you know how many people there are in this country that want to have kids, regardless of if they have any or not, and can't for medical reasons? They'd love to adopt, and they will. Shoot, a number of couples in my church have adopted babies from China, one of them is one of the senior pastors. I don't know if him and his wife can't have any more kids, I do know the other senior pastor and his wife weren't able to have other kids (not because of getting fixed either), so they adopted, locally, so to speak (in the U.S.).

But yet these girls that are becoming pregnant, and believe me, my high school looked like a maternity ward at times, are either not given the choice/knowledge of adoption or choose not to. I'm sure there were plenty more that had abortions. I know of 2 girls that had miscarriages before they started college. One while still in high school and the other over the summer.

It's a rented tux ok? I'm not going comando in another man's fatigues.