Guatemalan Congress raises minimum legal age for marriage to 18
Q. Guatemalan Congress voted on 5th November 2015 to raise minimum legal age for marriage to which number?- Published on 09 Nov 15a. 16
b. 17
c. 18
d. 19
ANSWER: 18
The minimum legal age was previously 14 (for girls) and 16(for boys). The unicameral congress voted 87 to 15 for approving the change urged by children’s rights group to eliminate child trafficking and teen pregnancies. UNICEF has estimated that close to 4000 marriages in a year involve girls aged 15 to 19 years and around 4700 of them aged between 10 to 14 years get pregnant each year.
