News Forum - Child marriage legally outlawed in the Philippines

[Stonker]

3 hours ago, JamesR said:

I do know an Indian person who forty years ago told me it used to be a tradition in India where SOME communities would marry their children to children from other families, it was more like a spiritual marriage and they would not physically stay together until they were 16.

It still is in some parts of India and Baluchistan - it was / is a way of settling scores and ending vendettas in some cases, like a reverse Romeo and Juliet, and also a way of cementing control over a larger region.