I’d say it’s okay as long as the parents are involved and know what’s going on. I’m a little weary of it because in this day and age girls that young who do something like that tend to have psych. issues more than a real desire for love.
Joker - Sadly, it’s true. That’s my only problem with it. I’d rather my daughter wasn’t exploited by a significantly older man.
I don’t know. I’d rather take this on a case by case basis.
Maybe I’m basing this too much off of the detrop case. That was a little weird to be honest. Didn’t seem like the girl came from a stable background.
Tortoise - That’s what I’m not totally against it…I just think quite a bit of the time it’s something lacking with their father figure. And, I doubt you understand their motives completely.
It is true that younger teenage girls are exploited by older guys. It happens all too often.
At the same time, if they actually love each other and are happy with it then there should be nothing stopping them.
I remember hearing about a couple like this and they ended up offing themselves Romeo and Juliet style because their parents weren’t ok with it. Should not have happened.
Understandable as a father. We all like to think we own our children but the reality of the matter young people will get into situations nonetheless as that is a part of getting older. It is that rebellious faze I am told.
As someone who has engaged on some seriously shady practices on both ends of the spectrum listed here, I’ll say that overall it is a good idea to discourage these kinds of relationships. While hierarchy in inherent in all human relationships, generally it can be seen as a two-way street where each partner learns as much from the other and where the role of superior and inferior partner switch. In the case of age-biased relationships, this almost never happens. Furthermore, since the superior partner in the relationship has generally had other age-normal relationships, they bring various age-normal assumptions to the relationship, meaning that they often have no idea as to how out-of-whack the power dynamics are.
Sure, it needn’t be a bad thing, but all too often it is, so I can’t say I condone it.
I am the un-ethical type or one without morals where I could be fourty years old in the future and still date sixteen year old girls. ( Sixteen being the youngest I would date.)
( Six to nine.) ( Party crashers.)
