Even though I normally loathe stories like the Jamie Lynn Spears pregnancy story, I can’t help but love this one. It raises so many questions about juveniles in our country. I like the stories about the legal ramifications of this. Her boyfriend was 18 and she is 16 and based on where they actually did it, they could have faced legal charges. Just think, she is from Louisiana and if he was more than 2 years older than her, he can be charge with statutory rape, sent to jail and put on the sex offender list. Seems kind of harsh for having sex with your high school girlfriend?
The truth is that almost every state needs to change their laws because they are out dated and give too much room for interpretation. We’ve all heard the stories about ignorant judges and prosecuting attorneys handing down penalties without the use of common sense. Just let me remind you that the student in Jena, Louisiana was charged with attempted murder, as an adult, at first for the school yard fight that occurred. The kid actually served 18 months in jail for a lesser crime (still too harsh) until common sense finally took over and he was set free. They should go after this kid just as hard for rape. Then again he’s white and it’s Louisiana.
What does tick me off about this Spears story is the fact that nobody has called into question our sex education in this country. This dumb news story has spun off all sorts of other news stories but nothing about our failing sexual education programs in this country. Perhaps this is a link to the White House’s obsession with abstinence only education which is a proven failure. Kids are having sex all over the country and we are pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into a faulty and irresponsible sexual education program that requires the teaching of only abstinence.
Perhaps if someone could tell these kids to wrap it up, they wouldn’t be in this position and I wouldn’t have to comment on it.
The truth is that almost every state needs to change their laws because they are out dated and give too much room for interpretation. We’ve all heard the stories about ignorant judges and prosecuting attorneys handing down penalties without the use of common sense. Just let me remind you that the student in Jena, Louisiana was charged with attempted murder, as an adult, at first for the school yard fight that occurred. The kid actually served 18 months in jail for a lesser crime (still too harsh) until common sense finally took over and he was set free. They should go after this kid just as hard for rape. Then again he’s white and it’s Louisiana.
What does tick me off about this Spears story is the fact that nobody has called into question our sex education in this country. This dumb news story has spun off all sorts of other news stories but nothing about our failing sexual education programs in this country. Perhaps this is a link to the White House’s obsession with abstinence only education which is a proven failure. Kids are having sex all over the country and we are pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into a faulty and irresponsible sexual education program that requires the teaching of only abstinence.
Perhaps if someone could tell these kids to wrap it up, they wouldn’t be in this position and I wouldn’t have to comment on it.
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