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A 30 year old with a sixty year old would turn heads as a rarity but is not socially taboo. Some might ascribe a significant financial motivation to such a coupling, but to each their own as they are consenting adults and may do as they choose.
An eighteen year old with a sixty year old would definitely be the subject of chide comments and a disapproving shake of the head but again, the majority has been brought up to believe that 18 = adulthood and at that age you become responsible for your own decisions.
A 16 year old with anyone much older than 19 or 20, would be considered abnormal and perhaps predatory by the majority. Children younger than 16 shouldn't be permitted by their parents to be in any sort of serious emotional/physical relationship. It happens for all sorts of reasons, and it is usually the parent's fault for not protecting their kids and enforcing strict behavioral boundaries having developed and exerting control of their children over many years.
Talks about puberty and desire need to occur before puberty sets in and throughout. Talks about relationships and sex need to begin at a basic level before the youngster develops an interest in the opposite sex and continue in more complexity until adulthood. It's too late when the young person is already engaging in sex or a misguided emotional relationship has been allowed to take root and overwhelm their emotionally immature brain.
Adults are supposed to avoid situations and behaviors that could lead to an inappropriate emotional attachment by young and impressionable members of the opposite sex. Charity is fine, help the young person's family if you wish. Those (primarily men) that take in a youngster and provide for them are just fostering dependency and are either predators who know what they are doing or are really out of touch with any semblance of child rearing skills and shouldn't be responsible for raising children. Teaching morality and the ability to make good decisions is something that parents do from age 2 to age 18 all day everyday. You can't alter a child's behavior just by saying "no" all of a sudden without the foundation of care and love and reason passed along over the entire child's development.
Too many these days do not have the skills to be proper parents and end up turning loose on society their unprepared and under developed offspring who have not learned self-control and good decision making skills. There are more involved in the equation than just me, myself and I.
An eighteen year old with a sixty year old would definitely be the subject of chide comments and a disapproving shake of the head but again, the majority has been brought up to believe that 18 = adulthood and at that age you become responsible for your own decisions.
A 16 year old with anyone much older than 19 or 20, would be considered abnormal and perhaps predatory by the majority. Children younger than 16 shouldn't be permitted by their parents to be in any sort of serious emotional/physical relationship. It happens for all sorts of reasons, and it is usually the parent's fault for not protecting their kids and enforcing strict behavioral boundaries having developed and exerting control of their children over many years.
Talks about puberty and desire need to occur before puberty sets in and throughout. Talks about relationships and sex need to begin at a basic level before the youngster develops an interest in the opposite sex and continue in more complexity until adulthood. It's too late when the young person is already engaging in sex or a misguided emotional relationship has been allowed to take root and overwhelm their emotionally immature brain.
Adults are supposed to avoid situations and behaviors that could lead to an inappropriate emotional attachment by young and impressionable members of the opposite sex. Charity is fine, help the young person's family if you wish. Those (primarily men) that take in a youngster and provide for them are just fostering dependency and are either predators who know what they are doing or are really out of touch with any semblance of child rearing skills and shouldn't be responsible for raising children. Teaching morality and the ability to make good decisions is something that parents do from age 2 to age 18 all day everyday. You can't alter a child's behavior just by saying "no" all of a sudden without the foundation of care and love and reason passed along over the entire child's development.
Too many these days do not have the skills to be proper parents and end up turning loose on society their unprepared and under developed offspring who have not learned self-control and good decision making skills. There are more involved in the equation than just me, myself and I.