Finally, a happy union between law and common sense, with the legal age of marriage being raised to 18 in England and Wales.
The main reason to celebrate this is because of all the forced marriages it will put an end to, but there’s more to it than that.
Sometimes people need to be saved from themselves, too, and that’s why this could, and arguably should, have gone further. Would we have a divorce rate of 42% in this country if you couldn’t get married until you were 30? I really don’t think so.
