Personally I find a great difference between teens having sex and teens and adults but having said that............just because a law is being broken somewhere else does not mean it should be ignored in this case.
But it gets greyer.....a 19 year old boy with a 15 year old girl.....problem in some states ..not so in others
first time I went to Latin America ....25 years ago.....I saw plenty of 50-70 year old guys with 18 year old mistresses...out on the town....these were big dogs from the countryside in town for business and some action
it’s just how it is a lot of places......anything under 16 or so bugs me admittedly......it’s hard to figure.....so many 15 year old girls today are very active.....some not.
my family and my wife’s are both replete with early teen marriages just 2-3 generations ago....and they did good and stayed together and raised good kids and so forth....poor too
one weird aspect to me is how they do appear to compound raise in a sorta communal group parenting way so these girls know these older men all their lives as pretty close in proximity associates or even cousins I’d guess.....that is icky.
But where do we draw the line on how religious groups practice marriage and procreation.
We are not out there chasing down Muslims who do this...I’m in Nashville with plenty of Kurds and they do it some and nobody says diddly.
Indians and Pakis both arrange seriously young marriages and yes sometimes the girls are 13-14 and the men in their 20s or older.....where are the SWAT teams?
What is the real story with Mormonism?
Both Brigham and Smith had 14 year old brides they impregnated and both apprently procreated with women not formally divorced from the first spouse.
And why did they do this? Expand the hierarchy of the faith? Why didn’t the Borgias think of this.