1. The Issue of Child Marriage
In some cases only one marriage-partner is a child, usually the female, due to importance placed upon female virginity, the inability of women to work for money and to women's shorter reproductive life period relative to men's. An increase in the advocacy ofhuman rights, whether as women's rights or as children's rights, has caused traditions of child Child marriages may depend upon socio-economic status. ... Unlike divorce, mi'un was regarded with distaste by many rabbinic writers, even in the Talmud; in earlier classical Judaism, one major faction - the Hous...
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