King County's Position Statement on Changing the Age of Cons

[Anonymous]

On 2006-04-30 14:16:00, Anonymous wrote:

"This is a bit off topic ... but I'm curious non the less ...



At the risk of sounding like an idiot ... how(if at all) would this law apply to age of consensual sex?  Would this change the current statutory sex laws?



If this same law reduces the age at which a minor can engage in consensual sex (with an "adult")... I say 13 is too young.







  "

unrelated, i think- although I if kids are the same age, or near the same age, then they technically can consent to sexual relationship with each other.  The age of consent applies to adult/child relationship, as I understand it.

[AtomicAnt]

On 2006-04-28 19:04:00, Anonymous wrote:

"The age of consent should be 18.  My poor son is now in Oregon because the state of Washington pushed us to take him there after 3 years, yes, 3 years of trying to get help through King County's At-Risk Youth Program.  A school drug program called AWARE, two outpatient programs which got kicked out of for testing positive and refusing to go (oh, his perogative in WA state, excuse me) and one 2-month inpatient at Ryther (which he consented to and once out was getting high 4 days later because it wasn't LONG enough), 12-step meetings that the court ordered he refused and they just kept putting him in detention for couple of days until he wrote some stupid paper to purge/get out early, multiple contempt charges from Lake Washington school district for truancy (hey! guess why all those kids skip school -- what do you think they're doing?) individual psychotherapy, family therapy, and 3 years later he's graduated from pot & alcohol to oxycontin, cocaine, shrooms, ectasy, vicodin, percoset, xanax and every other prescription drug you can think of.  Did it have to happen this way?  No, it didn't.  What kid is going to consent to be sent away for treatment for 9-12 months? Give me a break. I wanted my son in a treatmnent center in my state so we could see him all the time.  Now, after 3 years he's in the wilderness and after that will end up in a therapeutic boarding school or residential treatment center long term but far away from the family.  The age of consent should be 18.  Get out of your ivory tower and come down and look at kids like mine.  Yeah, look at them.  They're the kids who wouldn't consent.  They've destroyed themselves and this stupid law helped do it by preventing loving parents from giving them the care they needed."

Did you miss this part:
 

Laws addressing involuntary commitment, as well as At Risk Youth (ARY) and Children In Need of Services (CHINS) statutes, provide for parents or others to obtain necessary services when children are deemed incapable of giving consent or when they are clearly in need of having the decision-making process taken out of their hands. These processes protect the basic right to consent through legal review processes

No, I don't think you missed it. I think you are either a liar and made up your whole story, or an incompetent parent that wasn't able to obtain the legal authority to get involuntary care. Or perhaps your perceptions of your son's drug use were/are exaggerated and that is why you could not get this past the court. If your son really did all of those drugs in your list on a regular basis, he is the biggest druggie west of the Mississippi. Or are you going to attempt to convince us that he is such a charming little sociopath that he conned the system?