Yes, the age of consent and that of marriage should be the same. And I will say also that the age of consent need to be raised. One more thing is that we cannot deny that marriage is far more than sex. Your ability to have sex is not what counts in marriage. All you have to do to verify that is to consider the ever increasing rate of divorce especially in the developed nations of the world.

Let's not forget that sex among underage children has many psychological and health implications. Sex between an adult and a child is even worst.

What shall I say about teen pregnancy challenges? Marriage should be between two consenting, biological and psychologically matured heterosexual people.