MARRIAGE AGE IN BRITAIN.
APPEAL FOR AMENDMENT. (BJ CABLE—PKSSS ASSOCIATION—COPTBIGHT.) (AUSTRALIAN AXD H. 3. CABLE ASSOCIATION) LONDON, November 10. Women from many prominent organisations pleaded with the Home Secretary (Sir William Joynson-Hicks) to abolish immediately the law whereby girls of 12 and boys of 14 can legally marry in England. They urged that Great Britain was lamentably behind other countries, and gave a bad example to the world. They urged also that no boy or girl under 16 should marry, and pointed out that 30 under 15 years and 292 under 16 had married in recent years. The Home Secretary declared that the question was a very difficult one. In many cases of girls under 16 there were urgent reasons for marriage, and I any prohibition was likely to cause an ! outcry. Lady Astor described the Home Office circular in this connexion as feeble and disappointing.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19155, 11 November 1927, Page 2
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146MARRIAGE AGE IN BRITAIN. Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19155, 11 November 1927, Page 2
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