The Philippines' age of consent, which is 12 years old, is alarming and there aren't any concrete plans to raise it yet. But yesterday, Sen. Leila De Lima announced that she "filed a measure seeking to raise the age of sexual consent from the current 12 to 18 years old." De Lima, who is a human rights advocate, filed Senate Bill No. 1949 in hopes to protect young children from sexual exploitation and abuse. "It is vital to delineate childhood from adulthood, and to take a second look at the choices we allow our children, despite the scarcity of their experience and wisdom to independently take," she said in a statement. She added that increasing the age of consent to 18 will assur...
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