Elley Mae
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Needs to be decided on a case by case basis, I dont think it is fair or prudent to suggest it is always about sex, I am sure there many cases where it wasnt, my mother was 14 and my father was 18 when they met and they are still together 55 years later.
Also, females mature faster than males do so mentally, bio-physiologically a 14 year old female and an 18 year old male are a lot closer than you may at first assume.
That is not to say that I would let my daughter date an 18 year old if she were 14 but I would be willing to meet the boy and see what the situation is before I would draw any conclusions.
Case by case.
I just feel at fourteen you should be busy with school, homework, and sports, and the social life of a fourteen yr old girl with her female friends at that age. There is time for dating, but not at 14. That's just me, I am sort of old fashioned and it worked for me, my daughter didn't "date" til 18, she was busy with AP classes and trying to get in college. She graduated magna *advertiser censored* laude. And did have friends that had "boyfriends" at that age, but I told her all in time. She is 24 now and having a blast! BTW I was a single mother her "father" left when she was 4