Do you have a cite for “can and often does”?
I wouldn’t put statutory rape in the same catagory, considering it’s often voluntary. (If we’re talking simply age differences)
Of course not. Rape victims as it is are not given the help and support they need, who the hell would think it’s fair to make them see their rapist for another 18 years until the kid is grown up?
Anyone who would rape is not even worthy of being called a person anymore let alone seeing their child.
One actual famous case was the Mary Kay LeTourneau case. She became sexually involved with her 13 year old student, and gave birth to two children by him.
I think a case could be made that his rights as the father should supercede her rights as the mother. Of course, it would have to be his family who sued, because I don’t think any judge would award custody of a child to a 14 year old boy.
They’re now a married couple as I understand it. What did the statutory rape laws acheieve? Nothing it seems, apart from a gross interferance in private life.
MKL’s teenage lover took the two children. They later married.