MPs back raising minimum marriage age to 18 to protect children

The current law in England and Wales means people can get married at 18 or, with parental consent, at 16 or 17.

"This is about breaking a harmful practice legacy that is often handed down from generation to generation," Mrs Latham said. There was very little disagreement about changing the law to protect those at risk of forced child marriage. But this doesn't apply to Northern Ireland and Scotland, where the minimum age will stay at 16 - in Northern Ireland you still need parental consent to marry at 16, but in Scotland you don't.

"Her gift to her daughters, my sisters, was to offer them access to education," he said. "Not to marry them off young, but instead to encourage school and university before settling down.

Protect children to 18? Prevent cultural style marriages or even parentaly approved under 18 marriages,Alcohol & cigarettes not available till 18 Then Why are there campaigns to let 16yr olds VOTE.

JoolzDenby Did the MP's consent to Prince Andrew being pop over the pond to face criminal charges of pedophilia? Did Rennie agree to this after knowing protect a sex offender? What about Theresa May, you know, the one that lost the files on named pedophiles within the House? Those MP's?

This is the BBC enabling racism & stereotyping ...again. This is more about arranged marriages in the Asian & the growing Arab communities of the UK yet the photo used is that of a child from the wider African community.

It won’t stop the backward cultural practices of these South Asian communities in UK.

It’d be great if we’d get rid of child marriage in the U.S. too.

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