Barbados: 16 and Under<\/b><\/big><\/p>\nBarbados: 16 and Under<\/b><\/big><\/p>\n
THE AGE OF MEDICAL CONSENT should go below the 16-year limit which Minister of Family and Youth Affairs Dr Esther Byer-Suckoo is proposing. <\/p>\n
This is being recommended by the executive director of the Barbados Family Planning Association, George Griffith. Barbados Government To Lower Age Of Consent<\/b><\/big><\/p>\n The recent announcement by the government that they intend to lower the age of consent from eighteen years old to sixteen has caused many Barbadians to flicker eye-brows. The decision if promulgated will see sixteen year olds being able to seek medical attention without the consent of their parents. Doctor consent age ‘silly’<\/b><\/big><\/p>\n DROPPING THE AGE at which young people can legally gain medical attention without their parents’ consent to 16 will remove a number of “silly” irregularities.<\/p>\n That’s the view of Professor E. R. Walrond, the man who made the recommendation in a controversial report released a few years ago. Worldwide ages of consent<\/b><\/big><\/p>\n Worldwide ages of consent<\/a> Age of Consensual Sex in the USA<\/a><\/p>\n What is a ‘right’ age of consent?<\/a>
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\nHe said there were too many cases of sexual activity in young people below the age of 16 for any regulation to be so rigid.
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\nThis table lists different countries around the world, and shows the ages at which people of different sexualities can legally have sex. <\/p>\n
\nBBC News Online looks at the age of sexual consent around the world and how one nation may differ from another.
\nAGE OF CONSENT AROUND THE WORLD
\nArgentina – 15
\nBahamas – 16
\nCanada – 14
\nColombia – male 14, female 12
\nIndia – 18
\nIndonesia – male 19, female 16
\nHungary – 14
\nPeru – male 14, female 12
\nTunisia – 20
\nUK – 16
\nUS – federal age 16 <\/p>\n