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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 November 2018

Philip Graham*
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Emeritus Professor of Child Psychiatry, University College London, UK; email: [email protected]
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Lachlan Campbell has a point. My own view is that children under the age of 14 are unlikely to have sufficient emotional maturity or knowledge to make an informed decision as to whether to engage in sexual intercourse.

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