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Depends which country and even in some cases which State you are in. In the UK the age of consent is 16 In Ohio the age of consent is also 16 http://www.panynj.gov/CommutingTravel/bridges/html/gwb.html http://teenadvice.about.com/library ...

In Vietnam, 18, unless not yet graduated from high school (by law everyone gets older on Jan. 1).

The age varies I think it should be standard and raised to 25

Look it up yourself. You shouldn't trust internet chatter on something so important anyway. No one else seemed to notice the category of your request. Here is the web site for legal statutes in your state. http://codes.ohio.gov/orc/3

Here's a collection of quotes, roughly arranged chronologically, which may give some useful background information. . 1 “…This also means that Mary may very well have been pregnant with Jesus when she was 12 or 13....in the English speaking world.. The marriageable age was formalized at 12 in 1285. Up until that time THERE WAS NO LAW and lOCAL CUSTOM WAS FOLLOWED. Then in 1576 the law was changed to make it an offence to have sexual relations with A CHILD UNDER 10. Yes, 10. The marriageable age was still set at 12 but 10 WAS THE OFFICIAL AGE OF CONSENT. Having sex with a child was not considered a serious offence and so having consensual SEX WITH A CHILD UNDER 10 WAS ONLY CONSIDERED A MISDEMEANOUR. The situation remained this way until the late 1800’s. It is a pattern repeated in most English speaking countries, including the US. The law was reformed in 1875 after growing concerns about child prostitution, including the export of English girls to Europe. It was raised to 13.” Age of Consent - Open Integral-Social Holons, the NLP approach . 2 “Age of Consent throughout history has usually coincided with the age of puberty although at sometimes it has been AS EARLY AS SEVEN. Early on age of consent was A FAMILIAL OR TRIBAL MATTER and only became a legal one in the Greco-Roman period. The Roman tradition served as the base for Christian Europe as well as the CHRISTIAN CHURCH ITSELF which generally, essentially based upon biological development, set it at 12 or 14 but continued to SET THE ABSOLUTE MINIMUM AT SEVEN.” Journal of Psychology & Human Sexuality Volume: 16 Issue: 2/3 . 3 “… exploring the OFTEN BLURRED DISTINCTION between children's pastimes and adult pursuits in the medieval period. … also confronts the PROBLEM OF DISTINGUISHING ADULT FROM JUVENILE activities, emphasising the SIMPLE FACT that adults and juveniles in the medieval period SHARED COMMON INTERESTS, and that children WERE NOT always segregated from adult society.” Medieval Children Yale University Press, 2001 . 4 “there is NO OBJECTIVE MEANS of determining at what age the age of consent should be set, since children mature and develop at different rates.” The age of consent - NSW PARLIAMENTARY LIBRARY . 5 “..travel…across the Pacific to Peru and the age of consent for girls is 12” “in Texas children can marry as young as 14” “the case of a 14-year-old Rachael Lloyd, from Wales, who ran away with a 24-year-old Turkish waiter” BBC NEWS 1 October, 2004 “Spain has the lowest age of consent in Europe, set at 13, while Turkey and Malta have the highest, set at 18” Wikipedia . 6 “Ortho-McNeil CEO Blaine Monroe says the new chewable tablet form - presented in shapes of bears and other adorable wildlife animals - was simply a necessary evolution for a company that has for many years been monitoring the gradual drop in the MEDIAN AGE of sexually active youths - a number which studies show is QUICKLY APPROACHING THE SINGLE-DIGIT mark. … "Today, the American parent's demand is for a fun-to-take chewable that inhibits the ability of their precious darlings' eggs to travel through the fallopian tubes, alters their cutie pie's cervical mucus to block sperm, and partially inhibits implantation in daddy's little angel's uterine wall." New chewable birth control pill aims to combat preteen pregnancy – Recoil July 2008 End of quotes.

It depends entirely upon where you live. It even varies from state to state in the USA.