I don't know how things are in Nigeria. However, I think that when you get to more sheltered nations like the United States of America, the biggest problem is that "statutory rape" is treated as a strict-liability offense rather than an "intent" crime. Therefore, the laws regarding it are draconian here where I am, and it becomes necessary for there to be some kind of sanctuary in the system for people who are not threats to society in spite of any confrontation that they may have with these same laws. When two people are on opposite sides of the legal age line and they are very much in love with each other, it may become necessary for them to get married to keep the authorities from meddling needlessly into their lives. There are extremists here in my nation (the United States of America) who wish to mirror the marriage age floor in every state jurisdiction of my nation with the statutory age of consent, but such efforts would prove to be more detrimental than beneficial to Americans in the long run inasmuch as it will overrun both my nation's sex-offender registries and penal facilities with people who don't deserve to be on them or in them in the first place. Sorry, gentleshaid, but I have to disagree with your school of thought.
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