Yeah yeah he's Chester and all that but I'm more interested in how often the dude with the phone must get arrested if the police are listed in his phone as HOME!
As long as they are not sexually active and the parents appove and any time they are together they are with an adult and all dates are chaperoned by a responsible peer/adult than that is different. See my parents were 7 years apart they didn't even do more than kiss till my mom was 19 and they were married.
Now I am NOT saying all age difference like this is right.
When someone is trying to be sexually active with the younger partner that is a HELL NO!
But if done correctly and the age Gap is not THAT big where the younger is so much younger that the younger person wasn't even BORN when the older turned 18 than I see it as if there is rules being followed than ok. Because if they love each other for real than they can wait till the younger person is old enough for more mature things.
And I just know I will be down voted for this so just let me say I still say they can date BUT WITH RULES!!!
@mrscollector I understand where you’re coming from in concept. But I have to ask (respectfully and rhetorically) would you be comfortable with your 11-year old daughter dating a 19-year old man? I, for one, would think ‘what could a college sophomore possibly want from my grade 6 daughter? And is he seriously going to wait 5-7 years to consummate their relationship?’ I admire your faith in humanity but, for me, no amount of rule-setting and chaperoning would make me comfortable with a scenario like that.
My parents have an age gap, too. However, That gap only becomes acceptable when both parties are over the age of 18. If one person can be classified as a child, preteen, or minor, and the other person has nearly a decade age on them, it's literally taking advantage and entirely inappropriate. If she was 17 and he was 25, still find it a bit iffy, but meh-- If he wants to wait that long and follow those rules, then that's their business, PROVIDED he does wait until she's old enough. But Having a 20 year old who sits around and waits until a 12 year old is old enough to fuck is no less creepy in my eyes. There's a reason no one was rooting for the wolf-guy and what's her names baby to get together in twilight
He is kissing her in the photo. When my girls were that age , he would have been hoping and praying for someone to call the police if I seen my little girl in the arms of a grown man.
I have so much I could say on this topic, but I really don't care enough to go into another three comment post where I maxed the word limit each time.
Underage relationships are really weird. A 25 year old and a 30 year old is just fine because their maturity and power is about the same. A 15 year old and a 17 year old are leagues apart in maturity and power. A single year is a massive difference in the power structure when you're changing so much during puberty.
A healthy relationship requires near equal power and maturity. I don't even think you should date outside a year of your age. The gap is just far too much. It evens out after 20ish years old because then there is a certain minimum that is met. That's all I have to say here.
My friends parents started dating at 14 (mom) and 18 (dad).... It was actually the older ones brothers friend. Now, 25 years later, they are still married, super sweet, and amazing people with many kids of their own.
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=141164708
https://mentalhealthdaily.com/2015/02/18/at-what-age-is-the-brain-fully-developed/.
This is literally the entire point to consent/adult age laws.
Now I am NOT saying all age difference like this is right.
When someone is trying to be sexually active with the younger partner that is a HELL NO!
But if done correctly and the age Gap is not THAT big where the younger is so much younger that the younger person wasn't even BORN when the older turned 18 than I see it as if there is rules being followed than ok. Because if they love each other for real than they can wait till the younger person is old enough for more mature things.
And I just know I will be down voted for this so just let me say I still say they can date BUT WITH RULES!!!
Underage relationships are really weird. A 25 year old and a 30 year old is just fine because their maturity and power is about the same. A 15 year old and a 17 year old are leagues apart in maturity and power. A single year is a massive difference in the power structure when you're changing so much during puberty.
A healthy relationship requires near equal power and maturity. I don't even think you should date outside a year of your age. The gap is just far too much. It evens out after 20ish years old because then there is a certain minimum that is met. That's all I have to say here.