A Bakers Dozen of reasons why this is all crazy.......
I assume that the age if consent, the school leaving age, the legal drinking age, the cinema rating system and the age at which you can marry and vote are all going to be lowered to 13: Really, the government have to. They have no choice really. That is, after all, the inference from the decision that a 13 year old has a right to decide whether they live or die. If it can be allowed for this 13 year old to decide on this decision then really the others just pale into insignificance don't they?
God know what this decision is going to have on the average household: "Time for bed it's two a m"
"No. I'm thirteen for gods sake and anyway I want to stay up and watch Debbie Does Dallas"*
It is crazy really. It takes away parental responsibility surely. Should it not be the parents who have the right to decide in this case? After all, the government continue to espouse that its the parents responsibility to know where their fifteen year olds are at night. And yet, on the other hand they stand by the decision for a thirteen year old to decide whether they live or die. Can you imagine the girl in question have a word in her mothers ear saying "Look before I pop off I wonder if I might just have a few drinks in the local pub and bring a guy home for a one night stand" Mum would have to say "No, because your not old enough". I know that the subject is not one to ridicule, and I certainly would not want to be in the parents place. But if I was I feel it would be down to me to make the decision. Or are we saying that parental responsibility really does now stop when they are thirteen. If it does think I might just have a few more. By the time they are thirteen I could have them out working forty hours a week and I would have a happy retirement living off their earnings as I assume I would still be responsible for their pocket money.
A dangerous decision in my opinion and one that every thirteen year old is going to latch on to I'll be bound.
* sorry this is the only porn film I know other than Deep Throat and I thought that was in bad taste!
God know what this decision is going to have on the average household: "Time for bed it's two a m"
"No. I'm thirteen for gods sake and anyway I want to stay up and watch Debbie Does Dallas"*
It is crazy really. It takes away parental responsibility surely. Should it not be the parents who have the right to decide in this case? After all, the government continue to espouse that its the parents responsibility to know where their fifteen year olds are at night. And yet, on the other hand they stand by the decision for a thirteen year old to decide whether they live or die. Can you imagine the girl in question have a word in her mothers ear saying "Look before I pop off I wonder if I might just have a few drinks in the local pub and bring a guy home for a one night stand" Mum would have to say "No, because your not old enough". I know that the subject is not one to ridicule, and I certainly would not want to be in the parents place. But if I was I feel it would be down to me to make the decision. Or are we saying that parental responsibility really does now stop when they are thirteen. If it does think I might just have a few more. By the time they are thirteen I could have them out working forty hours a week and I would have a happy retirement living off their earnings as I assume I would still be responsible for their pocket money.
A dangerous decision in my opinion and one that every thirteen year old is going to latch on to I'll be bound.
* sorry this is the only porn film I know other than Deep Throat and I thought that was in bad taste!