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The age requirement is most commonly 16 for women and 18 for men. [citation needed] Despite laws concerning the age of marriage, tradition may usually take precedence, and marriage can continue to take place at younger ages. In many African and Asian countries, as many as two-thirds of teenage women are or have been married.
It is rare — according to the most recent Census Bureau’s American Community Survey, from 2021 (based on estimates of a sample size), only 1.1% of females and 1% of males age 15 to 19 are ...
The general age of marriage in Puerto Rico is 21; however, 18-year-olds can marry, with exceptions (the age of majority in Puerto Rico is 21). [68] In Guam, the general age is 18, but 16-year-olds can get married with the consent of at least one parent or guardian. [69] In American Samoa, the
Under the Criminal Code, Art. 293.2 Marriage under the age of 16 years reads: "Everyone who celebrates, aids or participates in a marriage rite or ceremony knowing that one of the persons being married is under the age of 16 years is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years."
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Before then, the minimum marriageable age was 12 for females and 14 for males. In 1971, the age of majority was lowered to 18 years old. The age of majority is 18 years old since 1983 A.D. and the minimum marriageable age is 14 years old for females and 16 years old for males since in 1917 A.D in the Roman Catholic Church.
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In Roman law the age of marriage was 12 years for females and 14 years for males, and age of betrothal was 7 years for both males and females. [7] The father had the right and duty to seek a good and useful match for his children. [8] To further the interests of their birth families, daughters of the elite would marry into respectable families. [9]