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The minimum age at which women can marry

The minimum age at which women can marry

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"Indonesia’s parliament has revised the country’s marriage law to lift the minimum age at which women can marry by three years to 19, a move welcomed by campaigners as a step toward curbing child marriage in the world’s biggest Muslim majority-country."

What do you make of this news seen through the prism of your religious, spiritual, philosophical or ideological beliefs?

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The law will empower local governments and community governments and family planning organisations and the police and the courts and hospitals and clinics and doctors and charities and schools and a range of non-governmental organizations to move against girls being married off at 14 or 15 or 16 or 17 and do so in their various capacities armed with an unequivocal Wait-Till-You're-19 law. It means that men seeking to gain control of girls of that age by marrying them will face legal consequences.

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19 is a pretty clear developmental stage than say 15, but 14, 15, 16 were all a bit of a much of a muchness with the old law setting the age at 16.

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Enforcing this law is certain to reduce the number of girls who get married when they are still, for all intents and purposes, children or pubescents. It won't eradicate child marriage.

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Enforcing this law is certain to reduce the number of girls who get married when they are still, for all intents and purposes, children or pubescents. It won't eradicate child marriage.

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Do you think the UK's 16 y.o. is too low?

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@fmf said
"Indonesia’s parliament has revised the country’s marriage law to lift the minimum age at which women can marry by three years to 19, a move welcomed by campaigners as a step toward curbing child marriage in the world’s biggest Muslim majority-country."

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Sounds like someone in Indonesia's parliament has some common sense.

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@fmf said
"Indonesia’s parliament has revised the country’s marriage law to lift the minimum age at which women can marry by three years to 19, a move welcomed by campaigners as a step toward curbing child marriage in the world’s biggest Muslim majority-country."

What do you make of this news seen through the prism of your religious, spiritual, philosophical or ideological beliefs?
Mohammad married a girl at age 6.

Is this a repudiation of the prophet?

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@whodey said
Mohammad married a girl at age 6.

Is this a repudiation of the prophet?
Yes

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@secondson said
Sounds like someone in Indonesia's parliament has some common sense.
The demand has come from society and from many groups within it. The people in the parliament had been dragging their feet.

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@fmf said
"Indonesia’s parliament has revised the country’s marriage law to lift the minimum age at which women can marry by three years to 19, a move welcomed by campaigners as a step toward curbing child marriage in the world’s biggest Muslim majority-country."

What do you make of this news seen through the prism of your religious, spiritual, philosophical or ideological beliefs?
Indonesia was the only Muslim majority country in the world which was not converted at the point of a sword . It is good to hear . Maybe there is hope for Islam.

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@caissad4 said
Yes
But it is an Islamic country, no?