Age-of-consent laws are definitely age-adjusted -- two 16-year-olds are fine, and lots of states have provisions where even if one partner is of age, it's not automatically statutory if the age difference is small enough (e.g. an 18-year-old dating a 16- or 17-year-old).
Did Jon want to know about this so that is Ned does anything else to Stephen it will still count as molestation?
That's right. The only way Ned could get around that is by marrying Stephen, and that's not something Stephen would do on his own or something his parents would railroad him into. (Unfortunately, it's a thing that has happened in other cases. Look up Courtney Stoddard for an example of a would-be teen pop singer who was married when she was 16 -- and, thankfully, got a divorce a few years later.)
Tina still isn't on Twitter, but Stimmy shippers are definitely doing weird aggressive conspiracy-theory stuff to her on other sites.
Most of Olivia's white friends don't actually realize they're helping. She's leveraging their whiteness all on her own. (I forget if it was IRL Olivia herself who talked about doing this, or some other Asian person with aggressively strict parents.)
Charlene has been working directly with the band this whole time, on an almost-daily basis. So yeah, she genuinely cares about Stephen, and he knows it. She doesn't even know Papa all that well in comparison.
And the Disney lawyer was consulting for Brian, no need to check in with anyone else. Papa doesn't personally review most of the day-to-day operations of Shout*For, which works in Stephen's favor.
Trevor has absolutely no problem with gay people. And he hasn't been told exactly why Stephen wants nothing to do with Ned, but he's a smart man; he can read between the lines.
How badly would he have to fuck up for the emancipation to be taken away from him?
Getting arrested, getting caught doing drugs, losing his income and ending up unable to support himself, getting into some kind of severe medical situation (possibly by going off his meds)...there are plenty of options, but Stephen has enough money to avoid most of them, and is smart enough (or at least, has smart-enough people around him) not to get himself into the rest.
Tad here is old enough to be Stephen's father, so he'll have a little more confidence when it comes to dealing with Stephen =)
It was touch-and-go for a while there, but they finally pulled it off! (A satisfying chapter to write, too, let me tell you.)
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Did Jon want to know about this so that is Ned does anything else to Stephen it will still count as molestation?
That's right. The only way Ned could get around that is by marrying Stephen, and that's not something Stephen would do on his own or something his parents would railroad him into. (Unfortunately, it's a thing that has happened in other cases. Look up Courtney Stoddard for an example of a would-be teen pop singer who was married when she was 16 -- and, thankfully, got a divorce a few years later.)
Tina still isn't on Twitter, but Stimmy shippers are definitely doing weird aggressive conspiracy-theory stuff to her on other sites.
Most of Olivia's white friends don't actually realize they're helping. She's leveraging their whiteness all on her own. (I forget if it was IRL Olivia herself who talked about doing this, or some other Asian person with aggressively strict parents.)
Charlene has been working directly with the band this whole time, on an almost-daily basis. So yeah, she genuinely cares about Stephen, and he knows it. She doesn't even know Papa all that well in comparison.
And the Disney lawyer was consulting for Brian, no need to check in with anyone else. Papa doesn't personally review most of the day-to-day operations of Shout*For, which works in Stephen's favor.
Trevor has absolutely no problem with gay people. And he hasn't been told exactly why Stephen wants nothing to do with Ned, but he's a smart man; he can read between the lines.
How badly would he have to fuck up for the emancipation to be taken away from him?
Getting arrested, getting caught doing drugs, losing his income and ending up unable to support himself, getting into some kind of severe medical situation (possibly by going off his meds)...there are plenty of options, but Stephen has enough money to avoid most of them, and is smart enough (or at least, has smart-enough people around him) not to get himself into the rest.
Tad here is old enough to be Stephen's father, so he'll have a little more confidence when it comes to dealing with Stephen =)
It was touch-and-go for a while there, but they finally pulled it off! (A satisfying chapter to write, too, let me tell you.)