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1980 figures and 1999 figures for EU countries are from European Social Statistics Demography 2001. Australian figures are from ABS, Year Book Australia 2003 - Population. Marriages and Divorces and the latest figure is for 2001. Figures for other European and North American countries come from UN Economic Commission for Europe, Trends in Europe and North America 2001 (UN, NY, 2001). New Zealand figures from Maureen Baker, Families, Labour and Love (Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2001). Japanese figures from Japan Almanac 1998 (Asahi Shimbun, Tokyo). Figures for other countries from UN Statistics Division, The World's Women 2000: Trends and Statistics.
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Ian Graham Staff Editor 5th April 2005 |
The high council on integration, a government advisory body, estimates that as many as 70,000 adolescents in France were living in arranged marriages in 2003. Virtually all were first- or second-generation immigrants. France’s justice ministry said figures indicate that approximately 1,200 minors were married in the country in 2004 and that many more are taken abroad every year to enter arranged marriages.">On March 29, the French parliament’s upper house gave its support to a bill that would raise the minimum legal age for women to get married from 15 to 18. Article 144 of France’s civil (or Napoleonic) code states that, “The man who is not yet attained the age of 18, and the woman who is not yet 15, may not enter into wedlock." This article, along with about half of the code’s total of 2,281 articles, came into force in 1804 and has not been amended. The high council on integration, a government advisory body, estimates that as many as 70,000 adolescents in France were living in arranged marriages in 2003. Virtually all were first- or second-generation immigrants. France’s justice ministry said figures indicate that approximately 1,200 minors were married in the country in 2004 and that many more are taken abroad every year to enter arranged marriages. |
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