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The age of consent is the age at or above which a person is considered to have the legal capacity to consent to sexual activity. Both partners must be of legal age to give consent, although exceptions to the age of consent law exist in some jurisdictions when the minor and their partner are within a certain number of years in age or when a minor is married to his/her partner.
15 16 With parental consent, a person can marry at 16. A person who is 15 can marry with parental consent and judicial approval. [46] [50] Idaho: 18 16 [46] 18 With parental consent, a person can marry at 16 or 17, but only if there is no more than a three-year age gap between the two parties. [46] Illinois [49] 18 16 [46] 17
However, there exists a "sexual indecency with a child" law that prohibits any person over age 18 from soliciting sexual activity from anyone under 15 (or believed to be under 15). This means that while sexual activity between a 14-year-old and an 18- or 19-year-old may be legal in and of itself, soliciting it could still be charged as a class ...
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The age of consent is the age at which a person is considered to be legally competent to consent to sexual acts and is thus the minimum age of a person with whom another person is legally permitted to engage in sexual activity.
Of pregnancies among girls aged 15–19 girls in 2008, 59% ended in birth, 26% in abortion, and the rest in miscarriage. [17] Overall, 68 pregnancies occurred per 1,000 girls aged 15–19 in 2008. Nearly 7% of 15–19-year-old girls become pregnant each year. Pregnancies are much less common among girls younger than 15.