adding my thought on the issue of people over 18 dating people under 18.... to me i dont' see anything wrong with it... the age doesn't mean shit... i mean some 16 year old girl could be more aware of what's going on and what that person is doing to her then say a 30 year old who isn't all there (to put it nicely)... basicly i think it should really be based on mental awareness, stablness, understanding and so on, becasue that girl that's 17 years, 364 days, 23 hours, 59 minutes and 59 seconds isn't any diffrent then the one that's just past 18 years old, but according to this law she obviously is... if all else fails, do this...take the person you're dating to your friends who don't know how old they are, and ask them how old they think they are, since it would be based on what they think of their mental capacity, development (in my eyes it's just as wrong to prey on 14 year olds, as it is to do a 18 year old that looks 14, you're still feeding this potentially devestating problem) i don't really have any set guidline of what's ok and what's not ok to date, becasue unlike the government, alot of parents, and alot of other authority figures, i realize, understand and aknowledge everyone is diffrent, and age doesn't really have anything to do wtih it, it does to a certain extent, but not to a point where you can say "at this certain year of age this is considered tollerable, approvable, and ok"