I’m sorry, but LOL. That is literally the whole point of grooming, to make the kid think it’s consensual and to not feel “groomed”. I’m genuinely happy you don’t feel like a victim, but he was absolutely a predator.

You sound like a truly controlling delight to be around!

Oh, I see now, you don’t actually have any thoughtful arguments or rebuttals and were just trying to get me to waste my time... You succeeded! Gratz!

I mean, yes, I would not disagree with your last question. Regardless of whatever circumstances have led to the youth taking care of themselves independently, a child is still a child (and yes, I consider <18 year olds children, to clarify). Adults and children are different, physiologically, mentally, emotionally.…

Are you suggesting that statutory rape laws are limiting the ability of teenagers to make decisions to care for themselves?

Ok. I was simply curious how much time had elapsed and whether you had been the parent of teenage children. I don’t know any people over about 35 who see “adultism” as a bad thing. And when you have to be responsible for a teenager, you see that they ARE immature. Not all the time, but enough that the laws protecting…

My college roommate passed out in the shower at her boyfriend’s apartment, fell, and sliced her forehead open to the skull. She lost a ton of blood, nearly died, required reconstructive surgery, and was out of school for over a month. The part my chill and very liberal mom described as “a parent’s worst nightmare” was…

I was always confused about why the bride’s family let the groom live after the wedding in shotgun marriages that occurred because of rape. It was explained to me that in some cultures a woman had to marry her rapist so she would be respectable and provided for, but I didn’t understand why the rapist had to be alive…

“Family members noticed that the two developed a romantic relationship.”

And some people who were in a similar situation feel very differently. I felt very abused by the older men who were sexually interested in me. I am glad that there are laws in place to protect children.

I knew a guy who had two kids born within two months by different women. He apparently was in the delivery room for both of their births and the second time the obstetrician (small town) did a double take and said “You again!” Awkward.

A girl in my class did this, too. Dropped out of 9th grade to get married and have a kid, although the guy was pretty close in age. She was a widow with 2 kids by 18.

The paragraph you quoted doesn’t mention or describe seduction. A term you might be looking for is “grooming”.

And what 20 something wants to be involved with a 14 year old?

husband

I grew up with a guy who was divorced before graduating high school. He’d got his girlfriend pregnant and they both had really stupid Christian parents. I also had classmates who had two or three children before graduating. Sometimes I think rednecks should have their kids taken away at birth just on spec.

I worked with a woman who got married to a guy in her late 20s when she was 17. Turns out she was having an affair and got pregnant by another dude, she had a quarter life crisis and left her kids with her mom and is with the dude. BIG SURPRISE IT DIDNT TURN OUT WELL. Her cousin got knocked up by a 30 year old at 15,…

Eww, same thing happened with this girl on my soccer team in middle school. She got pregnant at 12, her parents sent her to her village in Mexico, where she married the guy that got her pregnant. I think he was 27 and she never came back.

When I was in 10th grade, one of my classmates dropped out to get married. I ran into her more than 20 years later. She was divorced, with a few kids of her own. She said she wished someone could’ve talked her out of that nonsense. Her mother had to sign for her to marry that idiot.

“Seduces” isn’t an appropriate term to use to describe child molestation.