This petition was submitted during the 2019 to 2024 Parliament
Rejected petition Increase the legal age of consent from 16 years old to 18 years old.
Rejected on
Make it illgal for teens to give consent.
When your 18 years old. You are officially an adult. You are still legally a child till you turn 18 years old. Considering how susceptible teens are to peer pressure in high school. The legal age to be in education till is 18 years old, implying a 16 years old could be in a sexual relationship with someone in their 20's. At 16 want to have fun, someone 20+ wants to settle down. You have to be 18 to watch pornography, so why is consent 16 years old. They miss out on education due to pregnancy.
Why was this petition rejected?
There’s already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.
You may wish to sign this petition which calls for the same action: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/618519
We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.