"Anyway, what you described many adult women do, but it is important to note these adult women come from abusive backgrounds as well. It would be ludicrous to do the same for these adult women, even though battered woman syndrome is something "they can't help".

Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one pointing out that these supposedly Pedo issues are actually ones already faced by and addressed by laws governing adults.

Adults strive to balance the needs of the accused and the accuser, the needs for both freedom and protection. As flawed as they are, they progress and improve.

Meanwhile the laws denying a child agency haven't budged one whit. They've definitely altered the terms of what an owner can do with their property ( much the way you can no longer kick your dog. ) But they haven't altered the nature of children AS property.

It is ever the case that the laws that lawgivers agree to live under will be superior to those they impose on the disenfranchised; whether punitive OR protective.

Anywho, yes. We don't take the wife who recants a spousal abuse claim and make her a ward of the state for her own good. Nor do we treat her accusation as if double-jeopardy applied and determine that the recanting is the final say. And we certainly don't claim that one instance of recanting means that every subsequent instance of abuse MUST be disallowed.

But that's another thing that teleio-heteros understand that the Antis don't. That an instance of consensual sex does not give one unlimited access for everything in the future. Real consent is constantly given AND withheld in any ongoing relationship. "I have a headache," isn't a myth.

Only in the Anti imagination does the ability to consent mean that the child MUST become the sex-slave of the first person they consent with. ( Meanwhile all the freedoms which undermine slavery MUST be disallowed them. )

Dante