JK2006 wrote:
Condemned by the Courts for allowing police to treat 17 year olds as adults; this is particularly interesting regarding sex. Are "children" to be allowed to have sex (as anyone over 16 legally can)?
The 1933 Children and Young Persons Act calls children persons "under 14" and Young Persons those between 14 and 18.
A bit like The Sun condemning me for a lyric which says "there's nothing wrong with buggering boys" making clear they must be above the age of consent and must give consent.
My answer to their use of the word "boys" was "So are Our Boys fighting in Afghanistan all children?"
I only saw the film a couple of days ago and I thought it was magnificent.
I wish you had used a different word because I think it put people off watching it after glimpsing the headlines. Or perhaps headlines was the point?
I think a lot of people forget that fourteen year olds were considered grown up in the sixties and seventies. When I was fourteen (born 1960) I was a part time child care assistant in a children's home, which would be ridiculous now.
Childhood seems to go on for about twenty-five years these days!
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