Kids: Let them smoke!
A news headline on World Sex News today, "Stripper parents on probation", mentions a mother who hired a stripper for her son's 16th birthday, and had her 14 year-old help take photos.
Yes, I can see this story polarising readers.
But here in the UK where 16-year-olds can legally purchase cigarettes, I find it somewhat alarming that if the mother had bought her son 200 smokes, hardly anyone would have batted an eyelid.
Go figure.
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Don't forget the concept of minors is relatively recent, historically from the age of 7 children were seen as small adults.
Most of the West has romanticized chilhhood, going from one extreme of sending them down mines, to encouraging them to be social morons. We get quite upset if little jonny wants to smoke at 14 or little jenny starts fooling around at 12.
On the other hand the brain doesn't stop developing until around 21. So it could be argued that they shouldn't be able to drink, smoke, sex etc whatever takes your fancy til 21.
I've known of a 10 year old girl who was mature enough to basically raise her siblings by her-self while her mother worked and had uni friends that continued to act like little kids into their 20's.
How much is nature and how much is nuture?
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I don't agree - you generalise about how everyone wouldn't bat an eyelid about his mother buying him 200 fags. I, for one, WOULD bat an eyelid, as I'm sure many more would too. In fact I'd have one eye lid batting at the mother and her two son's and the other eye lid batting at the son getting 200 fags from his mum lol.
Thanks Anonymous, yes, I hope that most parents would think twice about buying their kids cigarettes.
I think my point was that we are blind to many things that happen to kids... adverts for junk food, buying products made by kids in third world countries, etc. I was just putting it all in context.
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