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1. djvu97 · 1790823822 · focus · HN ↗

   It was legal in the first place?

   1. socializer · 1790825100 · focus · HN ↗

      It's really adolescent marriage (the threshold was moved from 16 to 18). Teenage marriages were still fairly common in the West in the first half of the 20th century. Vatican City had a minimum age of 12 on the books until 2013.

      Europe is now more or less consistently 18 for parental consent, but marriages at a younger age are still permitted across the EU with judicial consent.

      1. rsynnott · 1790886834 · focus · HN ↗

         > Vatican City had a minimum age of 12 on the books until 2013.

         I mean, are there any children who are citizens of the Vatican City, given its bizarre citizenship situation? (Citizenship is based, essentially, on _employment_, and lapses when employees retire; sole exception, AIUI, is retiring popes, who get a free pass.) I would suspect that this is a holdover from the Papal States (which bit the dust in 1870, when this sort of thing was more acceptable), which someone finally got around to cleaning up.

      2. NewJazz · 1790956894 · focus · HN ↗

         This is factually untrue. There was no minimum age.

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