and many states circumvent that in the judiciary, we have child marriage to undermine other concepts like pedophilia, statutory rape here just like in developin

and many states circumvent that in the judiciary, we have child marriage to undermine other concepts like pedophilia, statutory rape here just like in developing nations its actually quite rampant, possibly more in absolute numbers than the countries we think about, we just chose not to focus media or civil rights attention on it https://19thnews.org/2023/07/explaining-child-marriage-laws-united-states/?amp https://19thnews.org/2023/07/explaining-child-marriage-laws-... https://www.cfr.org/blog/its-time-end-child-marriage-united-states https://www.cfr.org/blog/its-time-end-child-marriage-united-... https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/01/09/cassie-levesque-new-hampshire-child-marriage-524159 https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/01/09/cassie-lev... pick whichever source you respect more, I’m not that invested