18, 16 with parental consent is pretty typical in the US. Like a majority of states.
There are only ten that have no under 18 marriage under any circumstances, most work basically the same as WV, two actually require you to be older than 18, and California has no hard minimum. Massachusetts is one of the states with a hard limit of 18, but that was only passed in 2022, before that Massachusetts had no hard minimum same as California.
As for being weirdly familiar with these laws, five minutes with Google can get you there.
The whole point is it's dumb to pick on WV for having essentially the same rules as a majority of states as opposed to the 20% who don't consider parental or judicial approval good enough for an exception, the two who don't consider 18 old enough or the one with no minimum.
18, 16 with parental consent is pretty typical in the US. Like a majority of states.
There are only ten that have no under 18 marriage under any circumstances, most work basically the same as WV, two actually require you to be older than 18, and California has no hard minimum. Massachusetts is one of the states with a hard limit of 18, but that was only passed in 2022, before that Massachusetts had no hard minimum same as California.
As for being weirdly familiar with these laws, five minutes with Google can get you there.
The whole point is it's dumb to pick on WV for having essentially the same rules as a majority of states as opposed to the 20% who don't consider parental or judicial approval good enough for an exception, the two who don't consider 18 old enough or the one with no minimum.