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The age of consent in Washington is 16 with exceptions under different circumstances. RCW 9A.44.096 identifies situations in which the age of consent is higher. The age of consent is 18 for sex between foster parents and their foster children. It is 21 for sex between school teachers or administration employees and their students. [97]
In Delaware, the age of consent was 10 years until 1871 when it was lowered to 7 years. Under the 1871 law, the penalty for sex with a girl below the age of consent was death. [9] In 1880, 37 states set the age of consent at 10 years, 10 states set an age of consent at 12 years, and Delaware had an age of consent of 7 years. [13] [14] [15]
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.
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State-legislated age of consent laws and marriage age laws are inconsistent in relation to one another. In some states, it is possible for a minor to legally marry even if they are below the age of consent in that state. Between 2000 and 2018, nearly 300,000 minors were legally married in the United States.
Each state has its own age of consent. Currently, state laws designate the age of consent as 16, 17, or 18, with more than half of the states designating 16 as the age limit. However, all of the five most populous states have a higher age of consent (California 18, Texas 17, Florida 18, New York 17, and Illinois 17).
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May 7—OKLAHOMA CITY — An effort to raise Oklahoma's age of sexual consent appears dead for the session after lawmakers tried to take it a step further by also banning most childhood marriages.