Wrong.  About what?  Age of consent was generally younger. My grandmother got married at 16.  18 is the current age of consent where parental consent is no longer needed.  How old are you? Is your grandmother a boomer or pre-war kid? That would factor highly into whether her father had to consent to her marriage at 16. What point are you trying to make with your post? Where is consent to marriage even mentioned in OP's post? He clearly points to "pre-teens & teens" which is not what you say when you're talking about girls of "16". In the hippy scene 16 was basically considered an old hag. And "younger girls" they were singing about were not for marriage anyway, but for fucking. That's clearly what all that shit was about. (FFS "The Loving Spoonful" is a euphemism for ejaculate - "love" in hippy parlance = fucking, not romantic love) You're on drugs if you think there hasn't been aggressive sexualisation of preteens and teens since the 60s, leading into the same with children.