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If you really care for this person, let her enjoy where she is. Let her have fun with her high school friends. Let her go to the prom with somebody that her friends know And most importantly of all If she has a kid It's going to be a disaster!
Having said all of that No, it's not against the law for a 20 year old to "DATE" a 16 year old. The definition of 'date' means to go out together to a movie or to dinner or dance.
It does not mean having sex Having sex with her is not statutory rape, but it could be viewed as 'interference with custody' if her parents have objected to the two of you seeing one another Not to mention the old shotgun routine. Justia Ask a Lawyer is a forum for consumers to get answers to basic legal questions. This table has been compiled from a combination of historical and contemporary sources.
By , the first date chosen, many western nations had established an age of consent for the first time, typically of 12 or 13 years. By , when the influence of reform campaigns that established a new link between the age of consent and prostitution had run its course, most had revised their age upward, to 14 or 15 in European nations, and 16 in the Anglo-American world.
In the last decades of the 20th century, states and nations with ages below those averages amended their laws to move closer to them. In Europe that growing conformity owed much to moves toward greater European integration. Given that the rationale for the age of consent has remained essentially unchanged in its emphasis on the need to protect 'immature' children, the table highlights the shifting and various definitions of childhood employed across time and cultures.