Talk:Vasilii/@comment-70.172.198.214-20150213175211/@comment-7600752-20150302030128

You must understand this in its entirety. A child may seem and act mature dispite its age. However, we, as humans, recognize the limits a child has. Thus a child cannot be sued (but his parents can).

Also children develop diffrently. When I was young I noticed that some boys developed extremely early – seventh grade and already shaving beards, their pubic areas developed along with everything else. I know of a boy who developed really early – he got a highschool girl pregnant while he was in 7th grade. Now, did this same boy think or reason beyound his years? Of course not – he was a kid inside a man’s body.

Other boys didn’t go thru puberty until the 8th grade – they could walk with the 6th graders, and you wouldn’t have known the difference… they had the same mentality that other 8th grade boys had.

Now, most definetly, a ten year old would be much easier to reason with than a toddler would. BUT, the brain is still growing, still imature. I’ve taught ten year olds, and they’re not all that easy to reason with. Everything at that age is: me, me, me.

You also have to take into account, the child would remain a ten year old forever. So, it would mostly likely retain the me, me, me, attitude forever.

I think you expect this child to care for itself. Would you send out a ten year old expecting it to know the ways of the world.. and to care for itself?

What if by some miracle that the child’s brain did develop. Now it would become a full grown adult inside a child’s body, and it would be like that forever.

Anne Rice explored this scenario with Claudia, a chid vampire she created. Claudia’s mind developed, but she remained a small child in bodily form. Claudia craved to possess the form of a fully developed woman, but this was not to be. She eventually went quite mad.

But until they are mentally and physically mature, children are going to act as children on the whole.

The twins were changed anywhere to eleven to fourteen. It’s just not sure because people didn’t keep great records in those days. So, it’s open do debate whether the twins had at least begun their maturity. People didn’t have the proper food, nourishment, vitamins that we have now. So it’s possible that puberty was often delayed due to food, vitamins and nourishment. If they were fourteen, it’s possible that the twins began their sexual maturity. We just don’t know. But the twins still had to answer to the Volturi, which probably kept them in line most of the time