MARRIAGE OF MINORS
BRITISH WOMEN’S APPEAL
FOR HIGHER AGE LIMIT.
(Received 11.29 a.m.) LONDON, November 9.
Women from many prominent organisations pleaded with the Home Secretary to immediately abolish the law whereby girls of 12 and boys of 14 may legally marry in England. They urged that Great Britain was lamentably behind other countries and was a bad example to the world in that respect. They contended that no boy or girl under 16 should marry, and pointed out that already 30 under 15 and 292 under 16 had married in recent years.
The Home Secretary declared that the question was very difficult, as in many cases of girls under 16 there were urgent reasons, and any prohibition was likely to meet with ‘an outcry.
Lady As,tor described the Home Office circular in this connection as feeble and disappointing. l —A. and N.Z.
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Northern Advocate, 10 November 1927, Page 5
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