Honestly as unpopular as it is for me to say.., those need to be stopped too.. no one should be getting married as teens when they can't vote or sign a contract legally....
Romeo and Juliet laws are fine for consent purposes, but yeah... They can wait for marriage until they're both adults.
Too many weird ways that people can technically get away with selling children.
Shouldn’t be that unpopular, really. Under those laws, a 16 year old can marry an 18 year old no problem. But, if things aren’t so great a year later (and let’s be honest, we all know people who’ve had those marriages), the now 17 year old needs permission from their adult spouse (parents don’t count anymore, since marriage also emancipates them) to retain an attorney or file for divorce.
Giving the maximum benefit of doubt here and assuming that Romeo and Juliette laws are an honest attempt not to saddle young lovers with a lifetime offender registration, the marriage component of them should be scrapped.