Would you let your daughter do this?

[westkybanded]

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=3305652&page=1

16-40 years respectively...

[quackrstackr]

That makes me nausious.

Those parents "had no choice"? What the :confused:

If my daughter ever gets involved with something like that, someone is going to the hospital or jail (or both).

[12 pointer]

Sinkhole!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[MsgMills]

It's terrible and I believe that North Carolina is one of those states that let " Kids " marry with the signing of the Parents. At least that was the way it was back about 25 years ago or so when my young sister. Who lived with my grandmother got married to an older guy and she was only 14 or 15.... She had 3 kids by the guy by the time she was 17 and is still married to the guy today.

I guess weirder things can and have happened.....:(

[Multidigits]

Wanna bet that a 16 year old hasn't ever been wed in Kentucky before......sometimes by her own kin folk? :o

[B.M. Barrelcooker]

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=3305652&page=1

16-40 years respectively...


you are the liberal ? so whats wrong with it?

[westkybanded]

you are the liberal ? so whats wrong with it?

Staying neutral on this....

[B.M. Barrelcooker]

Staying neutral on this....


I knew it . You are a cagey smart one indeed!


Are you any good at scrabble? I've been looking for a formidable opponent.;)

[westkybanded]

not much on scrabble, but I make a mean scrapple!!

How's that for a word?

I tend to cheat too... and drink too much... Those little wooden pieces leave splinters no matter how long you cook em..

[B.M. Barrelcooker]

Two-year-old 'Matilda' becomes youngest ever girl in Mensa

By DUNCAN ROBERTSON - More by this author » (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/dmsearch/overture.html?in_page_id=711&in_overture_ua=cat&in_start_number=0&in_restriction=byline&in_query=duncan robertson&in_name=on&in_order_by=relevance+date) Last updated at 23:01pm on 21st June 2007
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Her parents knew Georgia Brown was bright. After all, she could count to ten, recognised her colours and was even starting to dabble with French.


But it was only when their bubbly little two-year-old took an IQ test that her towering intellect was confirmed.

Georgia has become the youngest female member of Mensa after scoring a genius-rated IQ of 152. Scroll down for more
http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/06_02/GeorgiaMEN2106_468x624.jpg Georgia Brown has an official genius-rated IQ - Intelligence Quotient - of 152



This puts her in the same intellectual league, proportionate to her age, as physicist Stephen Hawking.

According to an expert in gifted children, Georgia is the brightest two-year-old she has ever met.

Parents Martin and Lucy Brown have always regarded their youngest child as a remarkably quick learner.

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She was crawling at five months and walking at nine months.

By 14 months, she was getting herself dressed.


"She spoke really early - by 18 months she was having proper conversations," Mrs Brown said.

"She would say, 'Hello I'm Georgia, I'm one'. She was also putting her shoes on and putting them on the right feet."

Georgia was so perceptive that after one outing to the theatre to see Beauty and the Beast she solemnly informed her parents: "I didn't like Gaston (the villain). He was mean and arrogant."
Struck by the similarities between her daughter and Matilda, the title character in the Roald Dahl story about a gifted child, Mrs Brown began to worry about Georgia's future education.

She contacted Professor Joan Freeman, a specialist educational psychologist, for advice.

Professor Freeman applied the standard Stamford-Binet Intelligence Scale test to Georgia and was amazed to find this was too limited to map her creative abilities. Scroll down for more
http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/06_02/GeorgiaMEN2106_468x592.jpg Georgia with her mother Lucy, she is the youngest of five children



She said: "Even at two she was very thoughtful.
"What Georgia did on some questions was of a higher quality than that which was necessary to gain a mark.

"She swept right through it like a hot knife through butter.

"I would ask her things like 'give me two blocks or give me ten blocks' and she would manage it as easily as you would expect a five-year-old.

"In one test I asked her to draw a circle and she did it so perfectly.

"Most adults would struggle to do that. Her circle was near to being perfect.

"It shows she can physically hold a pen well but also that she understands the concept of a circle."
Georgia, who is at nursery school, was also able to tell the difference between pink and purple - a skill which most children learn at primary school age.

Professor Freeman said: "I said to her, 'What a pretty pink skirt, and you have tights and shoes to match'.
"She said, 'They're not pink, they're purple'. Most children go to school aged five and start to learn colours, let alone knowing the difference between pink and purple.
"I have to keep reminding myself that she is only two."

To the amazement of the family, who live in Aldershot, Hampshire, Georgia scored 152 points on the IQ test, putting her in the top 0.2 per cent of the population. Those with an average IQ would score around 100 points in the same test.

Georgia was then invited to join Mensa, the High IQ society whose members have IQs in the top 2 per cent of the population. Georgia is one of only 30 Mensa members under the age of ten.
Mrs Brown, chief executive of a charity, believes Georgia has benefited by growing up as the youngest of five children.

She has been absorbing information from her older brothers and sisters and father, a self-employed carpenter, while not receiving any special treatment.

"There is always someone around to offer her something," her mother said.
"But she still has temper tantrums, like you wouldn't believe, throwing herself on the floor.

"She doesn't think she's better and cleverer than everyone else. She is a very kind and loving child."
Georgia, who has a "wicked sense of humour" is as busy as any toddler, enjoying a schedule of ballet classes, listening to stories, dancing, singing, sport and even watching the TV.

[stevenvalleyagain]

The local high school would be looking for a new track coach, because they old one turned up missing or floating down the river.

stevenvalley

[kycowboy]

that is just stupid if that was my daughter he would disappear and never be see or heard from again

[kycowboy]

this is a vote from that site


A 16-year-old North Carolina track star married her 40-year-old coach after her parents signed a consent form. The parents had gone to school officials and authorities in an attempt to end the relationship but were unsuccessful.

Should authorities have put an end to the relationship?

Yes. They should have taken legal action against the coach.

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7,488
No. If the relationship was consensual, then authorities shouldn't interfere in it.
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1,440
I'm not sure. I think it depends on the age of consent in that state.
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1,051
Total Vote: 9,979

[carpenterguy]

they oughta just shoot him and get it over with. people like that are creeps!! and as for the parents well duh they didn't have to sign that form or let her keep seeing him. after all they are the parents. it's sad to think that in this world kids seem to run things.. what's the use in trying parenting if you just let em' do whatever they want!!! idiots plain and simple

[corndogggy]

That happened in Webster County a long time ago. My PE teacher was the girls basketball coach back in the day and he got caught in the school's hot tub (they had one for physical therapy for athletes) with one of the girls on the team. They promptly got married. I was under the impression that he was about that old and she was about that young.

[Multidigits]

That's strange....normally those thing don't happen in Ky. unless both parties are from the same immediate family.

[C.L.Button]

That coach needs a good old fashioned blanket party ! IF I EVER caught some old guy like that with my daughter, let's just say I got some BIG cookers and ALOT of Catfish stink bait ! :D :mad:

[carpenterguy]

That coach needs a good old fashioned blanket party ! IF I EVER caught some old guy like that with my daughter, let's just say I got some BIG cookers and ALOT of Catfish stink bait ! :D :mad:

sounds like the perfect plan there cl:D hey her parents may hire you:Dlol

[westkybanded]

That happened in Webster County a long time ago. My PE teacher was the girls basketball coach back in the day and he got caught in the school's hot tub (they had one for physical therapy for athletes) with one of the girls on the team. They promptly got married. I was under the impression that he was about that old and she was about that young.

Which PE teacher? When I was there it was Pat Ford... She was a real piece of work. I do remember a big scandal before I started highschool about the girl's basketball team and Ms. Pinkston.... That one sounded too bizarre to be true.

[Art]

That sort of happened at my highschool. A girl I graduated with ended up getting married to a teacher, but it was well after high school. I'd say the age difference was 8-12 years.

I really don't know what to think about this dude. In reality, it's pretty scary that a 40 yr old is on the same intellectual level as a 16 yr old. I can't even have a conversation with a 16 yr old.

I guess she could have just waited 2 years and it would have not been a big story.

[C.L.Button]

sounds like the perfect plan there cl:D hey her parents may hire you:Dlol

LOT'S of BIG Cat's swimmin in Lake Norman. ;)

[Auk1124]

I really don't know what to think about this dude. In reality, it's pretty scary that a 40 yr old is on the same intellectual level as a 16 yr old. I can't even have a conversation with a 16 yr old.


Yep, I'm betting in between all the sex, they are having lots of deep conversations about Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan and Nicole Richie.
I'd slit my wrists.

[TheToons]

woah, "we didn't have a choice"
that's ridiculous!

[corndogggy]

Which PE teacher? When I was there it was Pat Ford... She was a real piece of work. I do remember a big scandal before I started highschool about the girl's basketball team and Ms. Pinkston.... That one sounded too bizarre to be true.

I hate to name names since I don't know all the details, but it was the tall skinny bald headed dude. I think he was there before Ford. Actually I think I had both, seems like they switched up halfway through my high school years. I think that incident happened many many years before I got there in the early 90's, like back in the 70's or something. Ford would wear her miniskirts and walk over our heads while we did situps... that was kinda crazy. As for Pinkston... wow, I could have gone the rest of my days without that memory.

[naturalelite]

woah, "we didn't have a choice"
that's ridiculous!
This is the part I can't get over. At what point does your 16 year old daughter start telling you what she is doing???????The parents are as much to blame as the teacher IMO. Yes he should be castrated at the town square at high noon but what about the parents??Oh my 16 year old told me or else so I signed it.:rolleyes: Grow a pair, lock your kid in her room, slam the cell phone and computer on the side walk, and put bars on the windows if you have to. At least you have two years to talk some sense into her before she moves out.


Or float him down the river either one would work great.

[C.L.Button]

I'm thinkin slide in a glass tube, then smack it with a hammer. That should slow him down a bit ? :D

[KYCatBirdHunter]

I'm thinkin slide in a glass tube, then smack it with a hammer. That should slow him down a bit ? :D

remind me to never upset you.

[C.L.Button]

remind me to never upset you.

I have SERIOUS issues with anyone who abuses a kid. IF you ever loose one, you will understand. Hopefully you won't. ;)

That torture is one the Nazi's used in WWII.