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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Rambi who wrote (43297)7/3/1999 4:54:00 PM
From: Bob Lao-Tse   of 108807
 
My only point about the "emotional maturity for sex" is that we cannot continue to simply say "adolescents are not emotionally mature enough to engage in sex, therefore they shouldn't," because while we're saying that, they are engaging in sex. Except that they're doing so generally without the benefit of the insight and guidance (steps on the road to maturity) that they would have if we would simply accept the fact that they will have sex regardless of what we think and treat them accordingly.

I just think that we approach this problem from the wrong direction. We simply cannot force nature to follow our timetable, so we should be adjusting our timetable to fit nature's. If they are physically mature before they are emotionally mature, then that means that we have to do whatever we can to move up that age of emotional maturity, because there's nothing that we can do slow down their physical maturity.
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