age of consent

However much we gossip about heterosexual couples with large age gaps, we at least refrain from calling them sex offenders.

In straight relationships with an age gap, words like ‘gold-digger’ and ‘trophy wife’ get thrown around.

Most often, the doctrine is invoked by minors seeking an abortion without parental consent.

The same Pediatrics journal notes that 17 states have some form of exception to the standard parental consent requirement.

Doctors have long wrestled with the age of consent when it comes to mature adolescents.

Here began indeed, in the drab surroundings of the workshop, in the silent mystery of the laboratory, the magic of the new age.

The Rev. Alonzo Barnard, seventy-one years of age, accompanied by his daughter, was present.

In a warlike age this peacefulness of a monarch was the great and supernatural phenomenon.

He began his military career at the age of 11, and continued in the service nearly 60 years.

I am therefore quite sure I shall be content to await his father's consent, should it not come these many years.