Does anyone else find this pitting kinda… well, adorable?
It’s like a third grader pitting the concept of naptime in kindergarten.
“The biggest threat about teenage dating is their inability to maintain a relationship. Teenagers mostly, do not understand the necessity of sustaining a relationship over a period of time. Therefore, frequent break ups and fights lead to attempts of suicide, teenage pregnancy or mental instability in extreme cases. This happens due to lack of experience and a broader understanding of what relationships are.”
"The most visible negative impact of teenage dating is the school grades. Teenagers lose interest in studies and this is emblematic of their shifting priorities in life. This involves a double failure when teenagers lose their marks in class followed by problems in a relationship on the personal front.
- Onlymyhealth editorial team
Here’s the link for the full article: Negative Effects of Teenage Dating
I completely agree with those quotes! Way to reemphasize my points! You guys are only looking at the positive while I’m looking at the positive and the negative and then making a judgment. You need to look at the negative side.
And about the whole “two years ago” issue: It’s true. I asked why parents disapprove of teen dating, and they got all mad at me and started reasoning with me. Of course I was way too immature at the time to understand or acknowledge that. Now, I turn my head around, and now still people disagree with me. It’s like road rage, you know. You are in this lane where the driver is being so slow, and you change the lane, and that slow driver changes the lane and gets in front of you again!
Similar thing here. I used to favor teen dating, got negative results. Now I disapprove of teen dating, and I still get negative results. What’s going on here?
Life. 
What’s going on is, it’s not your place to decide what’s ‘right’ for everybody else. Regardless of which side you favour. Not based on your personal experience, not based on something you read, not based on what you feel. You get to decide for you. What is true for you is not really true for every other person. Harshly judging others for making choices other than you would, also, not your place. They are making decisions for themselves, and will live with the consequences, as will you. If you wouldn’t be happy, with them making your decisions, for you, then quit trying to decide what’s ‘right’, for them.
I missed out a key piece of information. They were those ages in 1996.
If it were your responsibility to decide what is good and bad for everybody, you wouldn’t like it at all. It would be really stressful. You really wouldn’t want that job. Think about what that would really be like.
What do you mean by “negative results”? Do you mean people disagreeing with you or not approving of your choices? That’s going to happen no matter what you do or don’t do. There is nothing you can do that everybody will agree with or approve of.
What I mean by negative results is that in both cases very few people agreed with me.
I’m not trying to make decisions for anyone here. I’m just pitting minor dating because IN MY OPINION, it’s useless. That’s all I’m doing. This is the BBQ pit: a place to rant about things you hate, etc. That’s what I’m doing. I hate minor dating and I’m pitting it.
“…minors who date too early end up with screwed up lives. It’s something that could haunt you for the next 80 years. It’s much better to stay safe and wait a few years.” - jim
“YOU are a damn BABY! and your mother is a FOOL for even letting you out of the house as you have the morals of an alley cat! It’s “allowed” not “aloud” so stay in school and learn.” - John B
I gave them both a thumbs up because I completely agree with them. You need to see more of this.
Why not? Dating is spending time together, talking, enjoying each other’s company, holding hands, maybe kissing. The only difference is that minor dating is often chaparoned, and hopefully not yet sexually active.
And plenty of adults condone kids that age dating. They often engineer situations where kids gather in a gymnasium, music is played, lights are lowered, and girls gather on one side of the room and boys on the other, where occasionally a boy will summon an incredible amount of courage and walk the ten excruciating miles from one side of the gym to the other, all under the watchful eyes of millions of judges.
This is called a “dance.”
Because you found it wrong for you.
It’s okay to rant, but that’s just about as lame as ‘I can’t tell you why it’s wrong - it just is’.
Maybe come back, and try again, when you’ve thought it through more.
I get that it’s just your opinion, that’s fine.
I wonder why you think it’s useless, though. By that metric, aren’t all friendships useless?
Minors certainly can and do have sex.
Legally, even.
AU was amusing for about five minutes, until it became abundantly obvious that he wasn’t going to listen to or respond to anyone who had anything at all to say that didn’t exactly match exactly what he already thought was true. He’s already developed the ability to reject any thought or opinion he doesn’t agree with. Once I saw that, it went from “fun” to somewhere between “obnoxious” and “sad”.
And you support that? Wow, I thought you’re supposed to wait until marriage for that (well I definitely will because it’s even in our religion).
Legally they can if they are 16 or older, but it’s definitely not advisable! We’re not talking about legality here, but advisability. You really think it’s okay for kids 16-17 to have sex. Heck, I think that you should wait until marriage (which will most likely occur when you’re in your twenties).
I think it’s wrong to have sex before marriage but then again, that’s just my opinion/religion.
You need to learn to not use Yahoo! Answers as a source.
Seriously.
I know Yahoo! Answers is not a very reliable source, but some people there are actually making valid arguments. (Trust me, I know about the stupidity that goes on there; I’ve had an account there for over a year).
Nony, you are out of balance. There are more dimensions to well being than just grades. If you do not learn how to live in balance when you are young, it will go all the harder against you when you are older.
You know, I was going to go with a “Dude, grow up.” I don’t have the time, nor the inclination anymore. It just isn’t worth it.
Oh - elbows?
His post is his cite. 
and I think it’s completely stupid to wait until marriage to have sex.
There! That’s my opinion! and now we have dueling opinions. So what’s next?
What I’m trying to say is that your opinion matters neither here nor there except to yourself. As does mine. Unless we try to pass it as law.