{"id":1006313,"date":"2023-02-27T00:01:34","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T00:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2023\/feb\/27\/campaigners-hail-law-raising-age-of-marriage-to-18-in-england-and-wales"},"modified":"2023-02-27T00:01:34","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T00:01:34","slug":"campaigners-hail-law-raising-age-of-marriage-to-18-in-england-and-wales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/02\/27\/campaigners-hail-law-raising-age-of-marriage-to-18-in-england-and-wales\/","title":{"rendered":"Campaigners hail law raising age of marriage to 18 in England and Wales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now illegal for 16- and 17-year-olds to marry or enter a civil partnership, even with parental consent<\/p>\n<p>Campaigners have hailed a new law raising the legal age of marriage in England and Wales as a significant milestone in child protection.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/implementation-of-the-marriage-and-civil-partnership-minimum-age-act-2022#:~:text=The%20Marriage%20and%20Civil%20Partnership%20(Minimum%20Age)%20Act%202022%20received,on%20Monday%2027%20February%202023.&amp;text=The%20Act%20will%20raise%20the,the%20scourge%20of%20forced%20marriage.\">The Marriage and Civil Partnership (Minimum Age) Act<\/a> comes into force on Monday following a five-year campaign and will prevent 16- and 17-year-olds from marrying or entering a civil partnership, even if they have parental consent.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2023\/feb\/27\/campaigners-hail-law-raising-age-of-marriage-to-18-in-england-and-wales\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now illegal for 16- and 17-year-olds to marry or enter a civil partnership, even with parental consentCampaigners have hailed a new law raising the legal age of marriage in England and Wales as a significant milestone in child protection.The Marriage a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24988,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1549,9544,22182,4397,6,640,31723,520,1314,1,5623],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006313"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24988"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1006313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1006386,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006313\/revisions\/1006386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1006313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1006313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1006313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}