and obviously this can be carried to an extreme to point out that age does, is, will always make a difference....to keep saftey, to keep structure, and reasonable boundaries in life...as i said you might as well grow kids in a test tube...and throw out any concept at all of an authorative figure in life from the government on down...we could revert back to wildness
...it ain't perfect...but i shudder to think what things would be like without it....