Hard to imagine most people didn’t live much past 50 more than 100 years ago.
You don’t allow children to enter into binding legal contracts. This is part of it. Mental age is another. Going through puberty and hormone fluctuations. Brain development that we now know doesn’t even really slow down in a major way until 25.
The fact that there may be an immature 25 year old that finds a mature 14 year old a match, doesn’t mean we scrap a law that works in virtually every case. If an exception ought to be considered, that is what a specific court case is for, that doesn’t necessarily apply to anyone else as it has specifics for that particular case.
“The fact that there may be an immature 25 year old that finds a mature 14 year old a match, doesn’t mean we scrap a law that works in virtually every case”
Marriage, with parental consent, is allowed in this case. The PARENTS are given the authority to determine whether this is a love relationship or an exploitative relationship.