In Chinese Inner Mongolia live the Daur people. In order to set a wedding date, the bride and groom are required to partake in an unusual selection process that requires them to kill and gut a baby chick together, with the same knife (they both have to be holding it simultaneously). The couple must then inspect the innards of the chick until they locate the liver. If the liver is in good condition and not in any way diseased then they can set the date, if the liver is of poor quality then they must repeat the process until the satisfactory liver is found!

Are civil partnerships permitted?

No

legal age of consent

18

polygamy legal status

Illegal

Mongolia still has human rights issues around the exploitation of children. Every year 14 million girls are married worldwide. One in seven girls in the developing world is married before her 15th birthday – some as young as eight or nine.

Married by 15

0.1%

Married by 18

5%

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