Dude, that's messed up. Peeps like you are why kids go nutz when they hit college. They lived under stalinist rule for so long that their first dose of freedom, they have to try everything...Its one thing to tell them whats right and help them if they got in a bad spot, but quite another to rule with the iron fist.
So after 16 or 18, (some) people just don't care on the age thing at all? Interesting. I did not know that females stopped growing at 16, I thought it was 18 and guys at 21. I have a cousin thats 24ish that married a due old enough to be her dad....they seem quite happy, no biggie...but what if they'd met 4-6 years earlier? Would it have been the worst thing ever?