14, gee I used to think it was barbaric the way they married 12 year olds off in india, but now I see that girls are so stupid in the usa that they want to just be used at that age without even any benefits of marriage...
My daughter is 13 and I tell her to enjoy her childhood because when it's over it's over and there's lots and lots of time to be a woman, a wife, a mother later on.
We just returned from the oregon coast, she rode her bike, rented a moped, went swimming, explored tide pools, watched movies, got a caramel apple on the boardwalk...It was beautiful to see that innocense and know that's about the most serious topic on her mind, how to have fun, not a wrinkled labia, not pregnancy, std's, getting screwed over by this guy or the next. I tell her, her family tells her, every day, that she's beautiful, she is tall, has long blonde hair and big blue eyes and pink cheeks, and she knows that she is, and she doesn't have to prove her worth or get love by spreading her legs for some hormone driven dog-boy. She's a competition dancer, can sing beautifully, and writes wonderful essays. She knows that it's her heart, soul, and mind that makes her a full human being. I know she'll experience pressures, so I am not even allowing her to go to middle school, she's home-schooling from now on and we're going to travel the world. When I used to visit the junior high school my son went to, the girls had see through skirts with thongs, belly shirts galore, there were some making out in full view in the hallways, and as bad as it was when I went to school it's just a porno-toilet in the public schools any more. Kids are so stupid they convince themselves that oral sex isn't sex and they're sucking and licking and feeling ok with that...But essentially they don't or they wouldn't kid themselves as they do.
I am so disheartened to see the levity behind such young girls playing with their bodies, their reproductive powers, as if they're nothing. I know my diatribe won't change anything, but at least I will do the best I can to keep my own kids from either hurting anyone else or getting hurt themselves. Even the loss of self-respect from acting our sexually prematurely is harm, and it's sad.