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Offline elliot

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Re: Definition of adulterer/adulteress
« Reply #27 on: Thursday 07 August 25 15:07 BST (UK) »

For those of you with sharper minds and who can cope with definitional contradictions,
do I have to be an ADULT to be an ADULTERER?
If so, what is the definition of an ADULT in our United Kingdom please?

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Re: Definition of adulterer/adulteress
« Reply #28 on: Thursday 07 August 25 15:11 BST (UK) »
Quote from: elliot on Thursday 07 August 25 15:07 BST (UK)

For those of you with sharper minds and who can cope with definitional contradictions,
do I have to be an ADULT to be an ADULTERER?
If so, what is the definition of an ADULT in our United Kingdom please?
There isn't one single definition of when a child becomes an adult, but I suppose you already know that.

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Re: Definition of adulterer/adulteress
« Reply #29 on: Thursday 07 August 25 15:24 BST (UK) »
MIKE,
I am naive in this area, after a brief search at Wikipedia, I find substantial 'grey areas' in the various legal definitions in relation to the Child/Adult boundaries.

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Re: Definition of adulterer/adulteress
« Reply #30 on: Thursday 07 August 25 15:42 BST (UK) »
Quote from: elliot on Thursday 07 August 25 15:24 BST (UK)
MIKE,
I am naive in this area, after a brief search at Wikipedia, I find substantial 'grey areas' in the various legal definitions in relation to the Child/Adult boundaries.
As it should be. We don't suddenly become adult overnight

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Re: Definition of adulterer/adulteress
« Reply #31 on: Thursday 07 August 25 15:54 BST (UK) »
Quote from: elliot on Thursday 07 August 25 15:07 BST (UK)

For those of you with sharper minds and who can cope with definitional contradictions,
do I have to be an ADULT to be an ADULTERER?
If so, what is the definition of an ADULT in our United Kingdom please?

If you have to be married to be an adulterer, then in Scotland and Northern Ireland you have to be at least 16 and in England and Wales you have to be at least 18. Not sure that makes you an adult though.

Adult and Adultery do not share a common root, so no you don't have to be an "adult" to commit adultery, just married.
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Re: Definition of adulterer/adulteress
« Reply #32 on: Thursday 07 August 25 16:08 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Gan Yam on Thursday 07 August 25 15:54 BST (UK)
If you have to be married to be an adulterer, then in Scotland and Northern Ireland you have to be at least 16 and in England and Wales you have to be at least 18. Not sure that makes you an adult though.

Adult and Adultery do not share a common root, so no you don't have to be an "adult" to commit adultery, just married.

At one point the marriage age (in Scotland) was 14 for males and 12 for females - this was later raised to 16 for both and is now under consideration to be raised again to 18 to conform to UN conventions.
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