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Raise the age of consent to 18

Submitted on Tuesday 30th April 2013

Rejected on Wednesday 21st June 2017

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

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Raise the age of consent to 18

Additional Information

We feel that the age of sexual consent should be raised to 18, given that at 16 young people are still in full-time education and are not yet adults. If young people are not judged as being mature enough to vote at 16 then they cannot be mature enough to take responsibility for a baby.


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

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