We in India are also inching towards it! There are reasons to believe that they will reduce the cases of child-marriages, or teenage love and subsequent elopement. But seriously thinking, why do we not think that marriage requires a certain level of maturity? By encouraging sixteen year olds, we are just making them prone to taking serious decisions quite early in life. However, since Indian societies are changing towards being like that of West, hopefully the teenagers will see it as a positive change as well.
Answered by
idlemind
, an ibibo Master,
at
6:17 PM on April 13, 2008