Several allow kids to consent at age 14, and two states at age 12. Critics of the bill worry that therapists working with younger children will encourage them to identify as transgender ...

Massachusetts lawmakers are renewing an attempt to close a loophole in state law so that students don’t become the victims of predators who abuse their positions of trust. As the state’s laws ...

One chatbot on Botify AI that resembled the actor Jenna Ortega as a teenage Wednesday Addams told us that age-of-consent laws are “meant to be broken.” Botify AI, a site for chatting with AI ...

Amid swift and emphatic demands for his resignation, Republican state Sen. Justin Eichorn was charged in state and federal ...

The proposed legislation calls for the government to say within a year whether it will raise the digital age of consent ...

Alabama lawmakers are considering a bill that supporters say would protect children from harmful online content by requiring app stores to verify the age ... consent. Alabama is one of 12 states ...

A bill to raise the age of consent is working its way through the Oklahoma legislature, and local child advocates expressed on Wednesday that it is a step in the right direction. Senate Bill 445 ...

An attorney tested the gray areas between the age of consent and sexually explicit videos of teenagers at the Eighth Circuit on Tuesday. (CN) – In oral arguments before the Eighth Circuit on Tuesday, ...

When asked why raising the consent age for medical decisions is needed ... Almost one in five teens aged 12 to 17 (19.5%) had a major depressive episode in 2022, according to the Substance ...

Like film and music, video games receive an age rating to inform consumers whether or not they are suitable. In Ireland, we follow the Pan-European Game Information (PEGI) age rating system, which ...