Claim: The age of consent — at which a person is considered legally competent to consent to sexual relations — in the majority of states in the U.S. is 16 or 17 years of age.
Fact-check: Is the Age of Consent 16 and 17 in Majority of US States?
Verdict: mostly true
Organisation: Snopes
Author: Nur Ibrahim
Date published: 2021-04-01T10:03:55