Is It Appropriate For An Older Man To Court A Young Child

Editor’s Note: This tale ended up being initially posted in and has been updated august.

The nationwide news this week happens to be dominated by accusations against U.S. Senate prospect Roy Moore — both the allegations which he intimately assaulted at the very least two teenage girls as well as which he experimented with date teenagers while he was at their 30s.

Moore denies the allegations. However the tales have actually prompted discussion about a particular “courting” exercise in pouches of this fundamentalist Christian community to which Moore belongs: Older men ask down ladies, including teens, making use of their moms and dad’s permission along with an eye fixed toward wedding.

Most of which raises the question: is not child wedding — whenever one of many lovers is under 18 — illegal in the U.S.?