Resolved: Age does not matter in a relationship

My opponent I did not copy and paste anything. Is my argument that good to be true that you have to ASSUME that I copied and pasted? All I stated was from the top of my head and that’s because I am a teenager so I know what is happening at my age. I would like you to prove to the audience that I copied and pasted. I will personally give you a million dollars if you do. The reason why the rest of point 2 was incomplete was that I wrote it in Microsoft Word so it did not copy properly. It is evident that my opponent under the influence of ignorance misinterpreted my point. My opponent, in his intends to defend his argument states that “The issue isn't that teenagers are having relationships; the issue at hand is their education as to what safe sex is. ” My opponent, my argument states and let me repeat “teenage relationships tend to leads to. ” I am taking about the effects of relationships and the issue is indeed that teenagers are having relationships. It is less likely to prove that a person who has never being in a relationship before has contracted a STI or get pregnant. My opponent, my point is that relationships are the MEDIUM through which teenagers have sex. I did not say that sexual intercourse (penetration) was the only sexual association. However, other sexual association, for example oral sex can also leads to the spreading of STIs. You also state that “it would only be right to see that the error is in our lack of educating them, not in them having a relationship in itself. ” You claim that lack of educating them is the problem but where is the proof that they are not being educated? Research has been done that prove the opposite of your statement [1]. Do you think that teenagers just have relationship like that? Most teenagers engage in relationships mostly for the pleasure which involves sex. At that age most teenagers are not thinking about committed or long term relationship. They are undergoing changes in their development physically and their sexual urges tend to rise. So engaging in relationships is the medium to which they explore their sexual fantasies especially since they are influenced by the media. Some females mature very early and older men and boys are attracted to them at a time when the girls do not have yet the social maturity to deal with these advances placing them at high risk for unwanted pregnancies and sexual transmitted diseases [2]. Now how will this be possible if no relationship is involved? When these young girl’s mature bodies attract these men and boys it then lead to relationship which then leads to sex. Furthermore, relationships go lower than just teenagers. My opponent, I failed to see the relevance about how teenagers learn in defending your argument. So my opponent your argument have little or no justification. Therefore you have not proved that my debate stands false. >>>>>>>>>>>>My Argument<<<<<<<<<<< Teenagers are not psychologically developed enough to deal with some of the implication of a relationship. Most times teenagers demonstrate violence and abuse to their partners and this tend to have multiple effects [3]. Teenagers are not able to adequately demonstrate maturity in their relationships, hence they get jealous easily, they are quick to jump to conclusions and they tend to be unfaithful. My argument is not based on the fact that these things happen but how they deal with is what I am defending. Most teenagers are not mature enough to deal with these issues hence violence and abuse comes into play. And this is not healthy for either of the partners. They tend to deal with it in the wrong way. In spite of their cognitive development in terms of their ability to reasoning logically teenagers still needs external guidance [4]. The level of maturity of judgment in terms of maturity may drop during mid-teen [5]. Gone are they the days that you can predict how a person should basically act due to their age. Now it is evident that you see varying behavioral patterns among teenagers which is proportional to their level of maturity. So based on those facts, it can be concluded that age does have significance in a relationship. . http://www.cdc.gov... . http://www.apa.org... . http://www.cdc.gov... . http://www.apa.org... . http://www.apa.org...