Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-1038387-20120921185155/@comment-4928331-20130305234229

17.6 does round up to 18, but I'm not sure if we apply rounding to ages. The law views this differently, and a state without a (sufficiently lax) Romeo and Juliet amendment to their statutory rape laws can make things difficult for teenage lovers.

For example, a 17.99 year old teen, only hours off from his 18th birthday, can legally engage in carnal congress with his 17.95 year old girlfriend. If he does it the next day, he could be convicted of being a child rapist.