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Q: Is it true Chinese women can't get married before age of 22?
11 years 50 weeks ago in Family & Kids - China
Nope, you might have heard wrong. In China, legal age to be married for women is 20 years of age, not a day younger. But men must be at least 22 years of age.
GuilinRaf:
On a side note, until 2005, the "age of consent" in Puerto Rico for girls was 14! Only then, was it raised to 16.
To illustrate what that means. "Dario" is a proud father of a beautiful 16 year old girl. He is excited because he will meet her first boyfriend!
Well, imagine his surprise when "Maria" brings her boyfreind "Jose", a 45 year old man! The girl is a minor, true, but she has reached the age of consent so legally, Dario can't do squat. LEGALLY. In 2005 it was 14...
aroberts42:
You are correct about *legally* having to be 20 to marry. However, I have a friend who told me yesterday that she got married when she was 18. I asked her how when you have to be 20 and she said in the countryside it is no problem for younger girls to get married with fake papers. They just have to pay the right people for them. She said that in big cities this doesn't usually happen, but in the countryside it is very common.
It is a well known fact that corrupted officials are very abundant in China, and I agree that it is easier and cheaper to get what you want done in the countryside than in the city. Bribes and guangxi is still very popular in small villages in China, but is it worth it?. Especially if you live in China ?. What would happen if you are caught ?
And since you, as a foreigner, can only ne married at the Marriage Bureau of the city, town or village where your future wife's huckou book is registered, what if is not at countryside?.
I had a friend who registered a gas motorcycle (real big engine) with a 3,000 Rmb bribe to a village chief, and got a real driver's license too besides the plates. But it lasted until the Police in Nanning caught him up and confiscated his motorcycle.
