I'm glad you are now aware of what the age of consent and age differences actually mean. Now moving on..
Unavailability of records? When you need parental consent and in many cases that of a judge? Yeah those records must be really hard to find. Lets just slap a 50% on due to our uncertainty.
There is a glaring fault with the study. The states that make up the bulk of their "would be crimes" are states where they set the age of consent to 18, but allow for marriages.
Ironically those state's rational was that marriage is not exploitative in the same manner as nonmarital relationships, and therefore, married children do not require the same protections.
So putting it another way their conservative view regarding sex out of wedlock is what is causing this large disparity. This should be quite obvious no?
If they were to do away with their marriage exemptions they'll need to adjust their age of consent and Romeo & Juliet laws accordingly.
So again that 40k+-20k is meaningless.
Just going by the unchained own data, from which the study sourced, 95% of all marriages are 16-17 yr olds with a 4yrs age gap (IE romeo & Juliet range). There is really no issue with these as that lines up with average age of consent in the US and even in Europe for that matter.
Haha that "commonsense" word so beloved by the Dems...Most parents prefer that children not be have sex, but they do so much more frequently than the few that decide to get married.
Says the person that didn't know stripping doesn't have to be nude...
So what are those men who are encouraging his behaviour doing exactly? They are befriending him, establishing emotional connection with him and encouraging his behaviour.
What are the parents doing that pushed him or enabled such behaviour?