LogFAQs > #980252401

I feel like this (child marriage, age of consent) is an area where the current laws are woefully behind the culture. The average life expectancy isn't 40 anymore. Girls aren't expected to marry at 16 and immediately start making babies, a third of whom won't even survive to adulthood. Most of the public realizes that a teenager entering a relationship with an adult in their 30s/40s is a bad idea and could be deeply harmful to the teen's development. Times have changed and kids are simply staying kids longer, yet child marriage is still legal in most of the country, and the most common age of consent in the US is still 16. Those things should change imo.