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This article is part of the Age of consent series of articles project.

In the interest of accuracy and quality it was decided by consensus to hold these pages to a high standard of verification and to avoid ambiguity through the use of prose (not dot points) discussing the relevant statutes, case law or other authorities.

To this end all information must be properly referenced. Where writing about legislation or other law, the appropriate statutes and similar must be cited. Where appropriate, portions of the legislation can be quoted. Where possible, a link to an up-to-date online copy of the legislation can be included (preferably, but not necessarily, in English). It is preferable to include any such references in-line, rather than in a separate <ref> section at the bottom of the page. This is to make it easier for readers to find the references in context.

The unfettered age of consent should be in bold text, in order that it stand out. No other ages should be in bold text. Any exceptions to should then be discussed afterwards (close in age exceptions, same sex relations etc).

For an example of a properly formatted article see the Ages of consent in Australia and Oceania.

*(The original age of consent formatting discussions began here)

The articles in this group are Helpful repositories of legislation
  • Please note that ageofconsent.com is not an acceptable reference as it has not been updated since 2002.

Netherlands

The section in this article on the Netherlands describes the situation from 1990 to 2002, but does not say what happened in 2002 to change this, nor what the situation is now. This information should be included in the article if anyone knows the answer. It would also be interesting, but a lesser priority, to hear about how it worked before 1990. Credulity (talk) 15:16, 31 July 2012 (UTC)

Meaning

"Age of consent reform are efforts to change age of consent laws, whether to raise... the age of consent"

I think an effort to raise the age of consent is better termed "counter-reform", not "reform". YOMAL SIDOROFF-BIARMSKII (talk) 15:17, 14 March 2014 (UTC)

But "reform" stems from "re form" which means "change". Not all changes are necessarily reforms, but changes which fit broadly under the rubric of social reform as generally understood certainly are. "Reform" does not mean "Changes which I like". Herostratus (talk) 02:50, 17 June 2014 (UTC)

USA

"However, feminists and children's rights activists began advocating raising the age of consent to 16 wanting to ultimately raise it to 18 and by 1920 almost all states had raised their age of consent to 16 or 18." In the linked source, the advocates were "Women reformers and advocates of social purity". XorFish (talk) 19:00, 16 June 2014 (UTC)

Good point. It's not clear to to me if "woman reformers" may or may not be reasonably characterized as "feminists". Certainly woman-led reform movements in 19th century America were proto-feminist. But the term "feminist" antedates that (I suppose) so maybe not a good term to use. I changed the passage to be in line with the ref. Herostratus (talk) 02:50, 17 June 2014 (UTC)
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