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posted by janrinok on Thursday March 08 2018, @01:57AM   Printer-friendly
from the protecting-children dept.

France to set legal age of sexual consent as 15

France plans to fix the legal age of sexual consent as 15, meaning sex with someone younger than that would be considered rape.

Equality Minister Marlène Schiappa welcomed the move, which follows advice from doctors and legal experts. Currently, prosecutors must prove sex with someone under 15 was forced in order to bring rape charges. The change comes amid uproar over two recent cases of men accused of having sex with 11-year-old girls.

Under the existing legislation, if there is no violence or coercion proved, offenders may only be charged with sexual abuse of a minor and not rape. This has a maximum sentence of five years in prison and a fine of €75,000 (£66,000; $87,000).

[...] The government is to approve the new age limit as part of a package of other laws against sexual violence and harassment in the coming weeks. It had been discussing whether to set the age as 13 or 15, which is what groups fighting violence against children had campaigned for.

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by c0lo on Thursday March 08 2018, @05:37AM (4 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Thursday March 08 2018, @05:37AM (#649343) Journal

    Lots of evidence that the age of puberty is dropping,

    Yes, but not by that much as the "age of successfully raising a family" contributed to the divergence.

    It is not unusual to find "kids" living with the parents at 30 years of age [www.cbc.ca]. This was 2014:

    For the first time in at least 130 years, young people between the ages of 18 and 34 are more likely to be living at home with their parents than in any other living arrangement.
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    The Pew Research Centre found that 32.1 per cent of Americans in that age bracket were living with their parents that year, followed by:

            31.6 per cent who lived with a spouse or common law partner,
            14 per cent who lived alone or with roommates,
            22 per cent who had other living arrangements, such as in college dorms, or with other family members.

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by dry on Thursday March 08 2018, @06:25AM (3 children)

    by dry (223) on Thursday March 08 2018, @06:25AM (#649360) Journal

    Besides how childhood keeps getting extended, there's simple economics, young people can't afford to move out anymore. I live 50 miles out of town, the vacancy rate is well below 1%, the median price of a house is $980,000 with the average being somewhat lower. It just gets more expensive towards town where the better jobs are. Kids can't afford to move out anymore.
    When I left home, you could rent an adequate apartment, eat not bad and save some money, all while working at minimum wage. Now, not so much, especially with the landlords being able to be very picky, the construction boom that involves tearing down the cheap housing to build something more profitable and the supposed non-existent inflation raising prices on the necessities.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 08 2018, @07:13AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 08 2018, @07:13AM (#649378)

      These rules drive prices up. We're trying to live beyond our means.

      We're competing with people who live in cages (East Asia), huts (Africa and Southeast Asia), caves (western China and South Asia), etc.

    • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday March 08 2018, @12:10PM (1 child)

      by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Thursday March 08 2018, @12:10PM (#649453) Homepage Journal

      If you get away from the insanely crowded major cities, housing prices drop literally an entire order of magnitude from that. The guy who owns the house I'm currently renting wants in the neighborhood of $70K for it. For a (he says four, I say three) bedroom with a double lot in the nicer part of town.

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      • (Score: 2) by dry on Thursday March 08 2018, @04:42PM

        by dry (223) on Thursday March 08 2018, @04:42PM (#649541) Journal

        Here, you have to get at least a hundred miles out of the city, which basically puts you in mountains. Prices are high over most of the Province (BC).