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The Forced Marriage Unit offers help to children facing it. [422] In the Netherlands, the minimum age to marry is 18. Forcing someone to marry is unlawful, even if the marriage took place outside the Netherlands. Children who have been forced to marry may contact National Expertise Centre on Forced Marriage and Abandonment for help. [423]
In Florida, 16,400 children, some as young as 13, were married from 2000 to 2017, which is the second highest incidence of child marriage after Texas. [39] In Alabama there were over 8,600 child marriages from 2000 to 2015, the fourth highest amount of any state. However, child marriage in Alabama showed a large decline in that time.
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Bose, not keen on marriage so early in life and while still attending college, only did so at his mother's insistence. [5] They had nine children, two of whom died in early childhood. Liu Chi-chun (aged 16) was married to Yen Chia-kan (aged 19) in 1924. Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib (aged 8) was married to Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (aged 18) in 1938.
The child marriage prevention laws have been challenged in Indian courts, [4] with some domestic Muslim organizations seeking no minimum age and that the age matter be left to their personal law. [6] [7] Child marriage is an active political subject as well as a subject of continuing litigation under review in the highest courts of India. [6]
UNICEF, the United Nations children's organization, regards a marriage of a minor (legal child), a person below the adult age, as child marriage and a violation of rights. [1] Until recently, the minimum marriageable age for females was lower in many jurisdictions than for males, on the premise that females mature at an earlier age than males.