FACT CHECK · RELIGION
Claim: The Talmud allows child marriage
FALSETHE ANSWER
Kiddushin 41a: a father may not betroth his daughter while she is a minor; she must grow up and choose. Israel set its legal marriage age at 18 in 2013. Old texts are not today's law.
SOURCE
Talmud, Kiddushin 41a (Sefaria); Library of Congress / Times of Israel, Nov 2013
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