I don't get why it's such a shock to people that the age is 12 in some countries. Take into consideration that the lower the age of consent, it is usually a poorer or more unhealthy country. The low average life expectancy in these places means population decrease and so people are likely to be encouraged to have children at much younger ages. Bear in mind that in such places, children will be much more mature at young ages than we were (or are) at around 12-14, as they will have had full-time manual labour jobs by then and will know full well the hardships of life.
Also, in many places it's probably just customary to marry and have children young, as it was in most of the world for millennia. A lower age of consent means that a family only has to support their offspring for a shorter while before they can be married off into a rich family (if they're lucky). Of course they might just go into prostitution, which isn't so lucky really (unless you really like it, but it's pretty dangerous) but that's life.








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