Twelve-Year-Old Girls Gan Wed in England
WOMEN RAISE PROTEST By Cable.—Press Association. — Copyright. Reed. 9.5 a.m. LONDON, Wednesday. Women from many prom inent organisations pleaded with the Home Secretary, Sir William Joynson-Hicks, immediately to abolish the law by which girls of 12 years and boys of 14 can legally marry in England.
They urged that Britain was lamentably behind other countries, and a bad example to the world. No boy or girl under 16 should marry. It was pointed out that already 30 under 15 and 292 under 16 had been married in recent years. The Home Secretary declared that the question was very difficult. In many cases of girls under 16 there were urgent reasons for the step, and any prohibition would most
likely be met with an outcry. Lady Astor described the Home Office circular on the question as feeble and disappointing.—A. and N.Z. . .
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 198, 10 November 1927, Page 1
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