[ On a ten year old girl giving birth in Mexico ]

I'm curious - why is it immediately rape? What if the boy with her was 11. Automatically he raped her? No matter what it was his idea, after all surely the 10 year old girl is perfectly innocent but the 11 year old boy is a deviant? Surely she could not have been willing..... Give me a break.

Yes, I'm older and for me to do with that one so young is just sick. But the idea that this is so awful is only a recent idea - dating back 100 years at the most. Think about Little House on the Prairie. What was she 13 when she got married? And that wasn't even considered too young at all. And this is Mexico - so you have to almost put them on par with us in the 1850's honestly. We only adjusted to the "18 to get married, your not an adult until then" when our life expectancy grew so much. Theirs isn't that high.

I can guarantee you there are 10 year old girls in Africa with boys near their age already in arranged marriages and likely pregnant. For them to wait until 14 would probably seem as equally weird to you as that age does to us.

Don't be so quick to judge or play the rape card.

Also - my ex-wife once confessed to me of having erotic dreams at age 9. No sexual abuse or anything strange, that's just when it woke in her. Which is also when her periods started. I.e. the hormones turned on and desires started along with them. She confessed to initiating some things as early as 11 with boys (the boys were about as confused as anything as to what to do). This idea that these little girls at this age are surely innocent and must have been raped is all well in good in fairyland, but simply not the realy. I know it's hard to think of little girls as something other that sugar, spice all that's nice, but they are just as perverted as boys and it typically awakens at an earlier age - as it happens when the hormones turn on and girls generally get their period at an earlier age than boys hit puberty.