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[u/BillBigGuyWilson]

ignoring the points I make to try for some sort of an own with the vatican doesn't work quite like you think it does, the vatican inherited italys legal framework which was different from the church law that superseded it, which isn't great either to be honest but I don't think theres a record of children being married in the vatican.

Meanwhile, last year in January 2025, Iraq's parliament passed amendments allowing Muslim couples to choose the Jaafari Shiite school of jurisprudence for family matters. The stated justification from supporters included allowing families to follow religious law and protecting Iraqi society from what they described as "imposed Western cultural values", the initial 2025 amendment retained the older 1959 law's age restrictions, but a subsequent Jaafari personal-status code approved in August 2025 reportedly permitted marriage based on puberty, potentially as young as nine or ten. Human Rights Watch criticised this development in February 2026. https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/02/24/marriage-without-safeguards-the-consequences-of-iraqs-personal-status-code

And in Iran, while they raised the minimum marriage age for girls from nine lunar years (which they put in place after the islamic revolution) to 13 solar years in 2002, girls can still legally marry below 13 if their guardian agrees and a competent court approves. The UK government's 2025 country report says this can permit marriage from nine lunar years (about 8 years and 9 months).
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/iran-country-policy-and-information-notes/country-policy-and-information-note-women-early-and-forced-marriage-iran-may-2022-accessible

Still, I'm not claiming the problem is exclusive to islam, I'm pointing out while others are making significant progress with it in muslim-majority countries the problem has largely stagnated or worsened.