She described how he commented on her appearance, saying she looked "of marriageable age," and continued his unsolicited advice even after she stopped responding. "He started off by asking me if I ...

The changes could shift the legal minimum marriageable age from 18 to as young as 9, the age girls are allowed to marry in the Jaafari school of Islamic law, which is followed by many Shiite ...

Farmers are marriageable, for the same reason as teachers, that is, they easy to ‘domesticate’. Given they have tied themselves to farming, men argue that it is easy to monitor their lives.