Children

For years broad minded people have said that what two consenting adults do in private is their business. The assumption was that no children were involved. Having pornography on your computer is legal but having child porn is not. The line between adult and children is no longer quite so clear. It started about 30 years ago when schools and healthcare facilities began providing birth control to children without their parents approval. A student cannot go on a field trip without parents consent. Next came abortions for children without parental knowledge using court approval. More recently in a number of states parents have been left out of the loop for more sensitive issues. These ‘sensitive’ services include abortions, sexual assault treatment, drug abuse and mental health treatment, cross-sex hormones, puberty blockers, and sex-change operations. In California, minors can consent to all of these sensitive treatments, except for sex-change surgeries, after the age of 12 under certain conditions, and consent to abortions at any age.” Many states allow consensual sex to children age 16. Many parents are unaware of how these laws have been implemented.