This is contrary to what the sciences tell us about healthy development,” she said. This is a very protectionistic way of looking at adolescent sexuality which also means that we don’t believe young women have a sexual identity.
“It is perplexing as to why a case is only registered against a boy and the girl is considered an aggrieved party. Reddy also pointed out that in several such cases in which the boy and the girl are aged below 18 and in a consensual, non-exploitative relationship, the boy is the one who is booked under the Act. The impact it has on the teenagers in romantic relationships and the psycho-social trauma that such cases leave them with is immense,” said Vidya Reddy of Tulir, Centre for Prevention and Healing of Child Sexual Abuse. “The POCSO Act has a draconian aspect that does not factor in healthy or normal adolescent development and sexuality. Under Section 19, any person, including the child who has an apprehension that an offence under the Act is likely to be committed or has knowledge that the offence has already been committed, will have to report it. A child, according to the Act, is anyone who is aged below 18 and cannot consent to any sexual activity. This comprehensive law provides for protection of children and young people from a range of offences. With a case registered under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, Ravi’s ordeals were only just beginning. Meena’s family then filed a complaint against the boy. A few months later, as problems persisted for the couple from Meena’s family, she insisted that he take her away from them or otherwise she would kill herself. His family, however, told her that her parents would miss her a lot and took her back home. However, as resistance continued from Meena’s family to the relationship, she chose to leave home and landed up on his doorstep. Both were 17 years old, and after schooling, they continued their relationship. Juliet and Monty end up getting caught in the feud between Karen and Hugh, Juliet and Monty who get around the edict not to see each other in Monty secretly teaching Juliet to race Rodeo in the annual Christmas Stampede barrel riding competition, all in an effort for Juliet to raise the money herself in the form of the first place prize money to be able to keep Rodeo in light of all Pete's debt.Meena* and her classmate Ravi had liked each other from the time they were in school together. It is partly through Nan and partly through Rodeo that Juliet meets and begins to fall for Monty Anderson, who happens to be Hugh's nephew, and who Hugh took in and treated as his own after Monty's parents passed. Meanwhile, Juliet, beyond striking up a friendship with Nan, the daughter of the stable owners down the road, has made a connection to one thing in rural Louisiana, namely Pete's horse, Rodeo. In addition, Hugh Anderson, with who Karen has a turbulent history (the two who were once engaged before she ran off), who Pete treated like a son, and who had long helped Pete maintain the ranch, has a proverbial "back of the envelope" written, albeit undated, agreement from Pete for half the ranch, which Karen, in her turbulent relationship with Hugh, intends to fight. It won't be that easy for Karen as she not only learns from Pete's best friend, Judge Brandon Lawrence who is administering the legal aspects of the estate, that the ranch operation is deep in arrears on many payments - money Karen doesn't have - but that there is no known will. Now, she wants to sell Pete's ranch as quickly as possible to run away once again to put this part of her life permanently behind her. Karen not so much left but ran away from her past in leaving twenty years ago.
Juliet, who never met her grandfather or knew about her mother's Lousiana past, has no emotional attachment to this trip, she who would have much rather spent Christmas in New York City with her friends in the comfort of big city life. Beyond Pete's death, it is not a good time for Karen as she already owes her editor new material, she not telling her editor that she has a major case of writer's block. With her teenage daughter Juliet Rogers, successful New York City based romance novelist Karen Rogers, in the lead up to Christmas, heads back to her Louisiana country home for the first time in twenty years following the sudden death of her father, Pete Rogers.
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