Roughly half of all US states allow children under the age of consent to get married with special permission, either from parents or from a court. In some states, a close-in-age exemption, commonly known as “Romeo and Juliet laws”, exists to decriminalise consensual sex between two individuals who are both under the age of consent, according to independent website. The US: Set on a state-by-state basis, the age of consent ranges from 16 to 18. In accordance with canon law all sex outside of marriage is illicit regardless of the age or willingness of those who engage in it, although the age at which a woman can marry is 14 compared to 16 for a man. The Vatican is the only jurisdiction in Europe not to have equal and gender-neutral age limits. By contrast, the age of consent is much higher in Turkey, at 18. Children as young as 14 are considered able to consent to sex in Germany, Austria, Hungary, Italy and Portugal. So how does this compare with the rest of the world?Įurope: Spain previously had the lowest age of consent in Europe, but raised it from 13 to 16 in 2013, bringing it in line with the UK, Russia, the Netherlands, Norway, Finland and Belgium. In the UK, the age of consent stands at 16, regardless of gender or sexual orientation. Most countries prohibit sex with under-16s or under-18s, but in some places the age of consent is as low as 11, or as high as 20. However, even within counties this can vary widely between males and females and in cases of heterosexual and homosexual sex.
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