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Originally Posted by Algernon
I'm not saying that that people the live at home and don't have a job aren't capable of immaturity. I was more or less trying to prove a point, that at a younger teenage age, teens declare themselves mature when they really aren't. Do you get where I'm coming from?
But everything on that list, I do still enforce. I think that if someone is mature enough to have sex needs to have good circumstances for themselves and good choices.
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Slippery slope, Holly. You declare teenagers to be immature, but then I think many adults in their fourties would say that you and I are immature. It's a scaling scale, not a switch that magically flips on when a certain set of criteria are met.
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OP:
At the risk of incurring your wrath, it really does depend on the person.
For me it was fourteen, and I've never had cause to regret it. For others, even twenty might be too young.
That said, if you'd like me to guess at an average over everyone, I'd wager it's in the neighborhood of 16 or so. Few people could deal with it before 14, and most can handle it by 18, so it seems a reasonable compromise.
The atoms that make up you and me were born in the hearts of suns many times greater than ours and in time our atoms will return once again to reside amongst the stars. Life is but an idle dalliance of the cosmos, frail, and soon forgotten. We have been set adrift in an ocean whose tides we are only beginning to comprehend, and with that maturity has come the realization that we are, at least for now, alone. In that loneliness, it falls to us to shine as brightly as the stars from which we came.