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You don't need to grant me anything Zeus I'm just saying it like it is. Up until literally this year France for instance had no AOC law (it is now 15) and what Americans would consider pedophilia wasn't outright accepted there but they were pretty lax about it. There was a case a few years ago where the French government refused to charge two men who had sex with a 13 year old with a crime because the girl consented and there was no proof she was harmed by the event(their words, not mine mods). Japan is another example of a first world country that had set the "strike zone" much lower than we would be comfortable here. A decade ago you could buy videos there in public stores that would earn you a prison sentence here. Both countries are trying to change/cover up stuff like that but it is almost exclusively because of international pressure from the US, not because they suddenly decided something was wrong with their cultures.

There are regions that still have strong faith in religion and a reverence for virginity where child brides are a thing still and others where the woman (or little girl in this case) is supposed to basically just pump out babies and the issues that come up from teen pregnancy here aren't nearly as important. In the case in the OP I would bet that the main reason the mom was fine with it was because the man "took responsibility" and had the means/desire to care for the child and the... other child, so all was right with the world in her eyes. It just is like that some places even if 12 is still on the younger end.