compulsory marriage

She argues persuasively that the activism the five awakened is already challenging the authoritarian state, with more and more women taking control of their bodies and rejecting “China’s patriarchal institutions of compulsory marriage and child rearing.”

It also calls on the government to launch a national awareness campaign against child marriage, introduce compulsory marriage registration for all religions, improve efforts to expand birth registration and investigate system abuses, and tackle the drivers of child marriage by, for example, minimising school costs.

Diseases of a contagious or of an incurable nature, whether contracted before or after the marriage promise was given, insanity, ungovernable temper, licentiousness or other vices, and serious defects are sufficient impediments to the compulsory marriage of betrothed persons.

Among KNUFNS' promises: to re-establish banks and private ownership, restore family life and abolish "compulsory marriage."

Her childhood was made unhappy by her father’s character and poverty,—and her early womanhood wretched by her compulsory marriage at the age of fifteen to a Captain Maurice St Leger Farmer, whose drunken habits brought him at last as a debtor to the king’s bench prison, where, in October 1817, he died.