SCHOOL CHILDREN MARRIED
The discovery that 483 New York school children were married during the last year caused considerable surprise in New York. Attendance at school is compulsory to the age of 17, but pupils marrying are automatically dropped from the register. The annual report of the superintendent of schools shows that most of these juvenilo unions were contracted by girls. One girl of 12 and another of 13 were among those married last year, 20 boys and girls became husbands or wives at 14, while no fewer than 342 were wedded at the age of 16. The majority of these were backward pupils, and camo from poor localities.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20762, 3 January 1931, Page 5 (Supplement)
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109SCHOOL CHILDREN MARRIED New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20762, 3 January 1931, Page 5 (Supplement)
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