“You look at the kid leaving middle school, and look at the young adults leaving high school, and there is a world of difference.”
Hard to imagine a century ago or so, girls were married by 16, isn’t.
I’m not sure the older girl is criminal, but the law is the law and she should be treated just like a hetero would be. If the law needs to be changed, change it but it is what it is and she is probably sh..-out-of-luck.
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.
Girls in the last century were better read and more educated at age 16 than most college graduates today.
Moreover, girls aged 16 in the last century weren’t considering “marriage” to other women.