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A 13-year-old can consent to any 15-year-old. A 14-year-old can consent to any 16-year-old. A 15-year-old can consent to any 17-year-old. A 14-year-old born on January 1 can consent to a 17-year-old born on February 1 as there is a 2-year-and-11-month difference, just under the 3-year difference.
15 — 18 273 271 ... Arkansas: No 14: 16: 18 [25] ... Youth rights; Legal age. Legal drinking age; Age of majority; Age of reason (canon law) Age of criminal ...
Costa Rican law 9406 makes it illegal for a person 18 years of age or older to have sexual relations with another person less than 15 years old if the older party is five or more years older than the minor. If the younger sexual partner is between 15 and 17 years old, the maximum age difference permitted is seven years.
In Canada, the age of consent is 16, but there are three close-in-age exemptions: sex with minors aged 14–15 is permitted if the partner is less than five years older, sex with minors aged 12–13 is permitted if the partner is less than two years older, and sex with minors aged 0–11 is permitted if the partner is 12 or 13 years of age, as ...
MOUNTAIN HOME, Ark. — Discovery of a naked 15-year-old boy locked in a bathroom has led to filing of more than 100 charges of false imprisonment against his mother and stepfather. Probable cause ...
Walker, N.E., Brooks, C.M. and Wrightsman, L.S. (1999) Children's Rights in the United States: In Search of a National Policy. Sage Publications. Hawes, J.M. (1991) The Children's Rights Movement: A History of Advocacy and Protection. Jacobs, T.A. (1997) What Are My Rights? Ninety-Five Questions and Answers about Teens and the Law.
Nearly 30 years after a six-year-old girl disappeared in Western Arkansas, authorities have identified a suspect in her abduction through DNA evidence. A 6-year-old girl was kidnapped in Arkansas ...
Later during the 20th century, common law jurisdictions split over both children's rights and youth rights; in some, such as the USA, a traditional father's control became a right to shared parental control and emancipation remained a remedy for mature minors, but in others, for example England, the idea of absolute control over minors has been ...