Even better, a teenager's PARENTS can consent to marrying her (almost always a "her"/AFAB) off to an adult, and "bride is pregnant" is a checkbox on the request for judicial bypass.
ASK ME HOW I KNOW.
(I, too, have a lot of sympathy for grey-area teen sex that's VOLUNTARY, particularly since I engaged in it myself . . . but I have ZERO tolerance for child marriage. You're effectively given into the custody of your spouse, and it's a LOT harder to get out than it is to get in -- divorces cost money, you can't necessarily legally get a job, you can't sign contracts, etc.)
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ASK ME HOW I KNOW.
(I, too, have a lot of sympathy for grey-area teen sex that's VOLUNTARY, particularly since I engaged in it myself . . . but I have ZERO tolerance for child marriage. You're effectively given into the custody of your spouse, and it's a LOT harder to get out than it is to get in -- divorces cost money, you can't necessarily legally get a job, you can't sign contracts, etc.)