Dating laws in michigan

Statutory Rape

In the United States , each state and territory sets the age of consent either by statute or the common law applies, and there are several federal statutes related to protecting minors from sexual predators. Depending on the jurisdiction, the legal age of consent is between 16 and In some places, civil and criminal laws within the same state conflict with each other. While the unrestricted age of consent is between 16 and 18 in all U. In , the ages of consent were set at 10 or 12 in most states, with the exception of Delaware where it was 7. The last two states to raise their age of general consent from under 16 to 16 or higher were Georgia, which raised the age of consent from 14 to 16 in , [] and Hawaii, which changed it from 14 to 16 in Age-of-consent laws historically only applied when a female was younger than her male partner. By , ages of consent were gender independent. In , Mississippi became the last state to remove the chastity provision from its code.

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Many states have a close-in-age exemption for young couples who want to engage in consensual sex but are slightly above and below the age of consent. In Michigan, the age of consent is 16 years old. This means that no one under age 16 is legally able to consent to sex. Anyone who is found guilty of having sexual intercourse with someone under 16 can be charged with statutory rape, which is considered 3rd-degree criminal sexual conduct. It is not unusual for high school couples to have one partner over the age of consent and the other partner under the age of consent.

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In the United States, the age of consent is legally defined as the minimum age at which a person is old enough to consent to sexual activity. Individuals under this minimum age are considered to be legally incapable of consenting to sexual activity. Anyone under the age of 16 cannot legally consent to sexual activity.

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Digital Dating, Teenagers & the Law

Over the past few years, the concept of dating has gone more digital than ever before. A good portion of the people that access these sites and accompanying smart phone applications seem to be teenagers. Teenagers also seem to be the new target when it comes to prosecuting sex crimes. Many of the cases prosecuted involve sexting. The one area of technological and digital growth that has teenagers violating laws the most is the advancement of cell phones and the situations they put teens in.

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