cathylynn wrote:
i dated when i was 15 and i turned out fine.
So, by preventing you from dating at 15, you?d have been prevented from having a point to support it.
modernmax wrote:
No, because that would be the typical, boring answer lame adults give that I obviously won't listen to. That might be why nobody will.
I wish I had been able to afford such an attitude at your age. I hope you don?t mind me quoting your reply in the thread next door for someone who doesn?t seem to have made up her mind so strongly.
The_Face_of_Boo wrote:
It's normal for teens to date
Oh, but you shouldn?t do it because of peer pressure, should you? So just because something is normal doesn?t mean you should do it, let alone be allowed to do it.
The_Face_of_Boo wrote:
and it's pretty good as long it's not too early
How early is too early? The only way to err on the side of caution is to wait till it is ridiculously late, or simply to let your whole life slip by without ever having that experience. Especially never having the experience of doing it while you?re young.
The_Face_of_Boo wrote:
and they aren't having sex and getting pregnant.
Oh, but that?s pretty much normal these days, too. Besides, why let teens date if you don?t want them to have sex? That?s just playing with fire. Don?t let them ever meet someone of the opposite sex and you can rest assured they won?t have sex, at least not the kind of sex that leads to pregnancies.
The_Face_of_Boo wrote:
I think it's very beneficial for maturing into adult life - in fact in a poll was done once here the ones who started dating since teen phase were the ones who had successful relationships the most as adults, it is an important transitional period.
No need to convince me about that. I?m sort of playing devil?s advocate for the following reasons:
1) It seems pretty clear that preventing teens from having sex is one of the top priorities of most parents, and sometimes that extends to preventing them from dating for about as long as possible. More often than not, this seems to trump any regard for the possible benefits of dating.
2) I have observed that some people do receive advice on dating at a pretty young age, without anyone suggesting that they should refrain from such an activity, while others are sternly reprimanded for wanting to do it and told the proper age is much, much later. The latter tend also to be those who are already in a harder position to meet someone they might eventually date. What baffles me the most is that people participating in one of those kinds of exchanges behave as though they were completely unaware of the existence of the other.
Yep, I know this is a grossly uneducated aspie observation.
The_Face_of_Boo wrote:
Something that I didn't have.
Me neither. To me, getting to understand some things about dating is like learning, after the game is over, about the plethora of secrets you missed when you were still playing it.
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