Most Latin American countries have increased the legal age of marriage to 16 or 18 years during the last years. However, the numbers of child marriages in Latin America do not reflect those reforms so far. Some reforms might be too recent. But furthermore, the legal age of marriage is only one factor out of many. The legislative reforms regulate civil marriage leaving informal unions and religious or indigenous marriages unaffected. Thus, the reforms might prevent early civil marriages, but they have not eliminated early informal unions and early religious or indigenous marriages and the socio-economic factors that can promote them.

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拉丁美洲童婚的法律进步和社会经济反思

在过去几年中，大多数拉丁美洲国家已将法定结婚年龄提高到 16 或 18 岁。然而，迄今为止，拉丁美洲的童婚数量并未反映这些改革。一些改革可能太近了。但此外，法定结婚年龄只是众多因素中的一个。立法改革对公证婚姻进行了规定，使非正式工会和宗教或土著婚姻不受影响。因此，改革可能会阻止公证人过早结婚，但并没有消除过早的非正式结合和过早的宗教或土著婚姻以及可以促进这种婚姻的社会经济因素。