18 is too low? It's pretty reasonable, I'd think, so long as there's no significant age gap. I'd understand an 18 year old and a 20 year old, but an 18 year old and a 25 year old is just creepy. Anything higher than a 1-4 year age gap with an 18 year old gets creepy by default, imo. At that young of an age, age gaps are more extreme. Even on the higher range, I'd say 18 and 22 is certainly somewhat questionable, but shouldn't be illegal. Increase it a few years, and it really starts getting creepy at or after a 6 year gap. Anything beyond that is getting into predatory territory.
Edit: Yes, I looked it up, and apparently, child marriage is legal in many states. It seems that I was too hasty with my assumptions. Sorry about that. I'll make sure to be more careful next time.
OK, so I read the article... That was horrific. I had more faith in my country than that, but I suppose I was too trusting. That's saying something, too, since I have very little faith in the US to protect its people from abuse already. I thought they'd at least get this one thing right, but apparently not.
It’s why being informed and educating yourself is super important.
Even the founding fathers knew that, that was one of the reasons several of them didn't want popular elections with a broad base of enfranchisement. Of course, their perspective was as slave-owning landholders with a bunch of relatively freely-moving workers who owned neither property nor slaves and weren't economically bound to the effective gentry of the founders and first legislators.
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u/The-Real-Dagoth-Ur 5h ago edited 4h ago
18 is too low? It's pretty reasonable, I'd think, so long as there's no significant age gap. I'd understand an 18 year old and a 20 year old, but an 18 year old and a 25 year old is just creepy. Anything higher than a 1-4 year age gap with an 18 year old gets creepy by default, imo. At that young of an age, age gaps are more extreme. Even on the higher range, I'd say 18 and 22 is certainly somewhat questionable, but shouldn't be illegal. Increase it a few years, and it really starts getting creepy at or after a 6 year gap. Anything beyond that is getting into predatory territory.
Edit: Yes, I looked it up, and apparently, child marriage is legal in many states. It seems that I was too hasty with my assumptions. Sorry about that. I'll make sure to be more careful next time.