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The Convention on Consent to Marriage, Minimum Age for Marriage, and Registration of Marriages is a treaty agreed upon in the United Nations on the standards of marriage. The treaty was drafted by the Commission on the Status of Women and opened for signature and ratification by General Assembly resolution 1763 A (XVII) on 7 November 1962.
Most men marry women younger than they are, with the difference being between two and three years in Spain, [12] the UK reporting the difference to be on average about three years, and the US, two and a half. [13] [14] The pattern was also confirmed for the rest of the world, with the gap being largest in Africa. [15]
Marriage was often the primary way for women to gain independence, as under English law, unmarried women were legally under the control of their fathers or other male relatives. [5] However, in an era where the number of women exceeded that of men, [ 6 ] finding an acceptable suitor, [ note 1 ] [ 6 ] could become a significant concern.
Much of that opposition was fueled by fears that expanding the definition of marriage beyond the traditional union of a man and a women would undermine the institution and be destabilizing to ...
Census data from 2021 also indicated that both marriage and divorce rates for women went down from a decade prior, with 14.9 marriages per 1000 women in 2021, compared to 16.3 marriages per 1000 ...
Marriage law is the body of legal specifications and requirements and other laws that regulate the initiation, continuation, and validity of marriages, an aspect of family law, that determine the validity of a marriage, and which vary considerably among countries in terms of what can and cannot be legally recognized by the state.
Critics of marriage argue that it is an institution which contributes to the maintaining of traditional gender roles, thus preventing women from achieving social equality, and reinforcing the idea that women exist to serve men, which in turn increases the abuse of women. They argue that marriage reinforces the traditional paradigm of male ...
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