最近我们在走访时发现，一些地方在办理婚姻登记时，提出核准婚姻当事人的结婚年龄，必须先由计生部门出具证明，民政部门才给办理婚姻登记，否则不予授理。对这种做法，笔者认为不妥，原因有四： 一、修改后的《中华人民共和国婚姻法》第六条中规定：结婚年龄男不得早于２２周 Recently, during our visit, we discovered at some places that when applying for marriage registration, we propose that the marriage age for approving marriage parties must be first verified by the family planning department, and civil affairs departments will only apply for registration of marriage. Otherwise, we will not be allowed to handle marriage registration. There are four reasons for this. First, the amended Article 6 of the Marriage Law of the People’s Republic of China stipulates that the age of marriage shall not be earlier than 22 weeks