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Response: Adolescent Sexuality and Public Policy: An Unrepentant Liberal Approach

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 May 2016

Lainie Friedman Ross
Lainie Friedman Ross*
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University of Chicago, USA
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One of the most interesting aspects of the commentaries on my article, “Adolescent Sexuality and Public Policy: A Liberal Response” (1996a), is what is not mentioned, namely, the issue of statutory rape. In a front-page article in The New York Times, Mireya Navarro writes about

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Adolescent Sexuality and Public Policy
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Politics and the Life Sciences , Volume 15 , Issue 2 , September 1996 , pp. 323 - 328
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Copyright © Association for Politics and the Life Sciences 

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