On the bright side, a lot of developed nations have been putting laws on the books to protect children from these creeps. The US recently had a series of 13 states banning marriage under the age of 18 under any circumstance (there were previously exceptions), Japan last year raised its age of consent from 13 to 16, and the UK two years ago removed exceptions to the marriageable age of 18 in England and Wales.
And I think it’s reasonable to say that once these laws go on the books in these sorts of countries, they’re basically there to stay, because while you’re always swimming upstream to create change, the current is going to be a lot stronger for reducing the age below 18 than for raising it up.