Anonymous ID: f248e8 Jan. 11, 2021, 2:27 p.m. No.12471086   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>1118 >>1195

https://www.reuters.com/article/canada-childmarriage-trfn/thousands-of-child-marriages-in-canada-spark-concern-over-global-leadership-idUSKBN29G2PV?

 

(Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Thousands of girls in Canada have been married before turning 18, researchers said on Monday, warning that a rise in unofficial child marriages could make the practice harder to prevent and call into question the countryโ€™s global leadership.

 

More than 3,600 marriage certificates were issued to under-18s - mainly girls married to men - in Canada between 2000 and 2018, found a study from McGill University in Montreal.

 

Yet that number is just the tip of the iceberg as more and more child marriages in recent years have been common-law unions - informal arrangements that provide fewer rights - it found.

 

At least 2,300 common-law partnerships - defined legally as relationships where a couple has lived together for at least a year - involved children under 18 as of 2016, the study showed.