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2616 Points
Joined August 2009
Child marriage is not permitted. But if the girlis over sixteen (to be precise almost 17) she can become a mother. Only the child is out of wedlock. That is not illegal. It is illegitimate. When law makers make laws, they conveniently exclude whatever is illegal but they forget to include certain situations that are rare and illegitimate but legally not wrong.
There are chances a person below 18 can fly down to a jurisdiction that recognises marriages of those below 18 and get married there. However, you cannot have law makers have a such a wide imagination. When their mind set is hellbent on meanness and imposing restrictions on others that they themselves cannot follow, you cannot expect them to be practical enough to extend their limited imagination.