Oh come on, what marriage? At my age?

In spite of the low minimum age of marriage, women generally entered into marriage at the age of 18 or above.

Legal Age for Marriage

Minimum age of marriage

Table 16.2. Mean age at first marriage, by men and women

Minimum age for marriage and compilation of a marriage act at the vital statistics office upon contraction of the marriage are regulated.

(d) The bill currently under consideration that aims at raising the age of marriage

According to family law, a person can enter marriage at the age of 18.

Enforcement of minimum legal age at marriage, paying attention to the provision of alternatives to early marriage such as educational and employment opportunities.

Michael even designed his mother's wedding dress for her second marriage at the age of five.

At the age of 28, she had a failed marriage, a dependent child, and no job.

However, the usual age for marriage was 20 years.

The legal age of marriage is set at 17 years for the girl and at 18 years for the boy.

Since Samoans were getting married at an older age, the Government should consider amending the marriage age to bring it in line with the Convention.

However, article 144 of the Civil Code sets the minimum age of marriage for women at 15 years.

Convention on Consent to Marriage, Minimum Age for Marriage and Registration of Marriages. New York, 10 December 1962

Convention on Consent to Marriage, Minimum Age for Marriage and Registration of Marriages. New York, 10 December 1962

There is no exception as to the minimum age of marriage.

Table 22 Marriage of Young People up to Age 19, 2002

Legislation regarding the minimum age of marriage was also frequently ignored.

Iraqi legislators are considering reducing the age for child marriage to nine. Pakistan s Council of Islamic Ideology is calling for all age limits on marriage to be abolished.

At marriage?

The law on marriage and the family specifies a minimum age for marriage registration_18, both for women and men.

South Africa has acceded to the Convention on Consent to Marriage, Minimum Age for Marriage and Registration of Marriages.

Increased age at first marriage, increased educational level of Qatari woman and more women integrated in the labor force.

The law on marriage and the family establishes the age for marriage for men and for women to be 18.

Therefore, women may not enter into marriage before the age of 15.

Many countries reported that fertility declines when the age of marriage rises.

While the minimum age for marriage for both boys and girls was set at 16, in practice girls suffered discrimination.

The age of 21 was the legal age for both civil majority and marriage for both men and women.

It was also urgent to raise the legal age of marriage for girls.

Which, she wondered, was the actual minimum age for marriage, 18 or 21?

b) men and women are protected by the minimum age requirement for marriage

Zinner Toa Wano (2000) have suggested that the age of marriage for girls should be increased to 18 years so that it would be in line with the male age of marriage.

322. The Committee observed that since the Child Marriage Act of 1984, the age for marriage of Bangladeshi women was 18 years.

Until then women, whatever their age, were the wards of their fathers before marriage and the wards of their husbands after marriage.

Men and women of marriageable age have the right to enter freely into marriage.

Men and women of marriageable age have the right to enter freely into marriage.

Table 2.1 Average age for first marriage by gender in 1999, 2001 and 2002

Article 148 of the Civil Code provides that a man may enter into marriage at age 16 and a women at age 14, subject to the consent of their parents that consent is not required once the parties attain their majority, which is Mexico is attained at age 18.

6. Urges States to enact and strictly enforce laws to ensure that marriage is entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses, to enact and strictly enforce laws concerning the minimum legal age of consent and the minimum age for marriage and to raise the minimum age for marriage where necessary

6. Urges States to enact and strictly enforce laws to ensure that marriage is entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses and, in addition, to enact and strictly enforce laws concerning the minimum legal age of consent and the minimum age for marriage, and to raise the minimum age for marriage where necessary

For example, Christian ecclesiastical law forbade marriage of a girl before the age of puberty.

Jesus said to them, The children of this age marry, and are given in marriage.

Another noticeable trend is the ascent in the age of women bearing children, mostly due to the rise in the age of marriage.