THW lower the legal marriage age.

应降低法定结婚年龄。

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China's legal marriage age for men, 22, is the highest in the world.

中国男性法定结婚的年龄为22，是全球最高。

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Since legitimacy is not the nature of marriage, marriage may be divided into legal marriage and illegal marriage.

由于合法性不是婚姻的本质属性，婚姻可分为合法婚姻和违法婚姻。

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And same-sex marriage could soon become legal in the city of Washington.

VOA: special.2010.02.06

At the heart of the controversy were changes to marriage laws, including articles that set the legal minimum age for marriage at 18, recognize only civil marriages, allow joint property ownership, expand parental rights, and extend inheritance rights to girls.

VOA: standard.2009.08.27

Since these tax rules only work on unwinding a legal marriage and not on any form of cohabitation, they remain a gross tax inequity the gay marriage debate has never thoroughly addressed.

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Legal marriage is already on the decline.

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"If courts create their own arbitrary definition of marriage as a mere legal contract and cut marriage off from its cultural, religious and natural roots, then the meaning of marriage is lost, and the institution is weakened, " he said.

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