The 'dieciseisañeros' English may work but not open a bank account. May undergo a silicone implant or other cosmetic surgery, but no body piercing or a tattoo. They can have sex with adults from the 13 but not to marry until 14. Criminal responsibility and authority to make a will, but are not allowed to vote, buy a beer or snuff.
These are just some paradoxes of treatment that English law gives teens between 16 and 18, emerging from under the age of innocence and confused living in a limbo of responsibilities. Because society allows some ability to make decisions on the one hand, while the other restricts it.
Reform of the Abortion Act, which will allow girls to 16 years to end her pregnancy without parental consent, and the impending administration without prescription in pharmacies of the morning-after pill have reopened an old debate about the need " review "different laws for real maturity of young people. All experts consulted by this newspaper under agree that there are serious "contradictions" in the legislation. But the true challenge is to define what things are truly ready to English adolescents.
And there seems little doubt that kids today are less mature than other generations. "More and more children are children, and we're giving them adult privileges," considers the juvenile judge Emilio Calatayud Granada, famous for its exemplary sentences.
Is a 16 year old girl emotionally suited to marry, undergo cosmetic surgery, abortion or postcoital pill ask? Borges says no to everything. On abortion is unequivocal: "A girl ripe age of 16 is just what is not pregnant. "Regarding the pill, the debate is different. The Ministry of Health notes that there has never been an age limit when administered and that the only difference is that it will of prescribed in the outpatient clinic to be distributed in a pharmacy.
judges long ago you spin this issue. interested in making a review. The law must adapt to changing times, to give an overview on the rights and duties of the child, what to do and if there are competing interests, "Calatayud said." We have to strike a balance as at 16 is more psychologically abortion difficult to vote or have a cane " Borges agrees.
Some administrations and are considering this review. Thus, Congress recently urged the Government to raise minimum age of 14 years for sex with adults, while the Junta de Andalucía has hardened Patient Autonomy Act for minors who want to become an aesthetic operation have to first go through an examination of madurez.Los experts believe that it is not so much to put a single age for all, since all actions have the same significance and maturity is yielding little by little, but all issues can usefully .
Fernando Gil Villa, sociology professor at the University of Salamanca, points "The actual age of the use of sex, drugs and the breakdown of standards is and will remain below the legal age or you would like to most politicians. They are wrong who believe that conservative lawmakers ban reduced practice and the supposedly progressive liberals believe that gestures such as the morning-after pill teenagers suddenly recover the wisdom and responsibility. Because the problem is just that true freedom is a gift or granted by law , but taught. " Education is the key.
Source: www. mundo.es
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