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Originally Posted by Skinwalker
I'm amazed at the ingenuity and courage of this girl. What age do they usually marry at in Yemen?
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Here's what my googling turned up:
"In 1999, the minimum marriage age of fifteen for women, rarely enforced, was abolished; the onset of puberty, interpreted by conservatives to be at the age of nine, was set as a requirement for consummation of marriage."
Human Rights Watch World Report 2001: Yemen: Human Rights Developments
-But I don't get it; is it menarche? Or the age of nine?