Well, the age of consent is 13-16, depending on state, but it doesn't affect the broader point.

and many states circumvent that in the judiciary, we have child marriage to undermine other concepts like pedophilia 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-...

https://www.cfr.org/blog/its-time-end-child-marriage-united-...

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/01/09/cassie-lev...

pick whichever source you respect more, I’m not that invested