Sexual Freedom Rights for Adolescents? A Rejoinder to Agnes Tellings

Autor/in	Steutel, Jan
Titel	Sexual Freedom Rights for Adolescents? A Rejoinder to Agnes Tellings
Quelle	In: Journal of Moral Education, 38 (2009) 2, S.213-217 (5 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0305-7240
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Freedom; Adolescents; Ethics; Sexuality; Moral Values; Adolescent Development; Competence; Social Attitudes; Developmental Stages; Civil Rights; Decision Making; Child Rearing; Parent Role; Parent Responsibility; Foreign Countries; Self Determination + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Freiheit; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Ethik; Sexualität; Moral value; Ethischer Wert; Kompetenz; Social attidude; Soziale Einstellung; Bürgerrechte; Grundrechte; Zivilrecht; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Kindererziehung; Parental role; Elternrolle; Ausland; Selbstbestimmung
Abstract	Agnes Tellings rightly observes that adolescents, if compared with pre-pubescent children, are much more capable of making their own choices and therefore should be granted much more freedom to arrange their own lives. However, the capacity of adolescents to make prudent choices still seems to be below the threshold of competence. Therefore, interpreting their growing freedom in terms of freedom "rights" (or rights of self-determination) seems to be mistaken. If the freedoms granted to adolescents can be explained in terms of rights at all, they could better be understood as rights to experiment. And even if some of the freedoms adolescents might have are not experimental, parents still retain the authority to veto their choices, albeit only for pressing reasons. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10