PETALING JAYA: Wanita Pakatan Harapan has urged the Government to take concrete measures to ban all child marriages, saying that such “unions” would only cause more problems and set a negative path on the development of children in the country.
Its chief Zuraida Kamaruddin (pic) said the Women, Family and Community Development Ministry should review its steps to ban child marriages as women NGOs had found that most of these child marriages do not last, with the average duration being five years.
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