MANILA, Jan 8, 2022 (AFP): Child marriage became illegal in the Philippines as off this week as a law banning the practice took effect in a country where one in six girls enters wedlock before the age of 18.
The impoverished South-East Asian country has the 12th-highest number of child marriages in the world, according to Britain-based rights group Plan International, with long-held cultural practices and gender inequality hindering change.
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