Word: consents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Americans-and its inevitable problems seem to catch them by surprise. Mistakes are also easier to make in a day when mating is more random than ever. Unlike the divorce laws, the laws of marriage are simplicity itself: a girl can marry at 18 in most states without parental consent, and 20 states do not even bother with the normal three-day wait after a blood test. Many who get married do not seem to know quite what it is all about; a survey showed that U.S. teen-agers agree widely on only one marital duty: that the man should...
...church began granting annulments and separations. At Luther's urging, the Protestant Reformation approved secular divorce for grounds of adultery or desertion. Such Catholic countries as Italy and Argentina still ban divorce, but many others, from Japan to Sweden, have reached the point of permitting divorce by mutual consent...
...Consent v. Coercion. As Rusk sees it, the great conflict in today's world is between the "forces of consent" and the "forces of coercion"-and to yield to coercion is to invite catastrophe. "Can we build peace," he asks, "by standing aside in the face of aggression...
...What two adults consent to do in private is no concern of mine and should be none of yours...
...mistake of fact which disproves any criminal intent." Having recently applied that rule to bigamy, the California Supreme Court scrapped 68 years of precedents and extended it still further in reversing Hernandez's conviction. Chief Justice Roger Traynor added: "This is not to say that the granting of consent by even a sexually sophisticated girl known to be less than the statutory age is a defense. We hold only that, in the absence of a legislative direction otherwise, a charge of statutory rape is defensible wherein a criminal intent is lacking...