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China urged to lower legal age for marriage

16.03.2018

Didi Tang - The Times, March 15 2018.

China is facing calls to lower its legal age of marriage — the highest in the world — to help boost birth rates and alleviate the problems of its aging population. Men must currently be 22 before they can marry, and women 20. The limits were set in 1980 as Beijing introduced its draconian one-child policy.

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