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In RE: age limits at high school proms.
This is one of those issues that shouldn't be an issue.
But is.
Where are the parents of these 16, 17, 18 year old girls who are abdicating their responsibility to make clear that when you are 16, you are TOO YOUNG for a 21 year old boyfriend.
We'll just ignore the creepiness of a 21 year old who dates a 16 year old, for the moment.
Being a parent is not always fun. Being a parent of a teenager is frequently not fun, because you are performing a balancing act between encouraging the budding adult that your child is, and protecting the child that your child, simultaneously, is.
But, until the parents of these kids grow up and deal with having to say no and enforce it, I guess that high schools will have to do it for them.