Editing Irish Travellers (section)

==Marriage==
Marriage among Travellers in their late teens is common.<ref name="McElweeJacksonCharles2003">{{cite journal|last1=McElwee|first1=Niall C.|last2=Jackson|first2=Ashling|last3=Charles|first3=Grant|date=2003|title=Towards a sociological understanding of Irish Travellers: introducing a people|url=http://arrow.dit.ie/ijass/vol4/iss1/11|journal=Irish Journal of Applied Social Studies|volume=4|issue=1|page=110|issn=1393-7022}}</ref> As of the Census of Ireland 2016 58.1% of Irish Travellers were under the age of 25, with 31.9% of this age group married. As of 2016, 201 enumerated Irish Travellers aged 15 to 19 identified themselves as married, down from 250 in 2011.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Irish Travellers - Demographics - CSO - Central Statistics Office|url=https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-cp8iter/p8iter/p8itd/|access-date=2021-06-08|website=www.cso.ie|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Irish Travellers|url=https://www.paveepoint.ie/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Factsheets-Pavee-Point-IRISH-TRAVELLERS.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://www.paveepoint.ie/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Factsheets-Pavee-Point-IRISH-TRAVELLERS.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live|access-date=8 June 2021|website=Pavee Point}}</ref> Irish Travellers generally marry other Irish Travellers.<ref name="DOE1995">{{cite book|author=Government of Ireland. Department of the Environment|title=Report of the task force on the Travelling Community|date=July 1995|publisher=Department of the Environment|location=Dublin|pages=140, 156, 264, 275 276|hdl=10147/560365}} {{open access}}</ref>{{rp|page=156}} [[Consanguinity|Consanguineous]] marriage is common among Irish Travellers.<ref name="McElweeJacksonCharles2003" />{{rp|pages=110–111}}<ref name="DOE1995"/>{{rp|page=156}}{{efn|A 1986 study reported that 39% of marriages in the study were between first cousins.<ref name="McElweeJacksonCharles2003"/>{{rp|page=110}} According to Alison Healy in 2003, 19–40% of Irish Traveller marriages are between first cousins.<ref name="Healy2003">{{cite news|last=Healy|first=Alison|date=2003-05-01|title=Study urges genetic counselling for cousins who marry|website=Irishtimes.com|location=Dublin|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/study-urges-genetic-counselling-for-cousins-who-marry-1.357442}}</ref>}} According to [[Judith Okely]]'s work on Travellers in Britain in the 1970s, "there is no large time span between puberty and marriage", and the typical marriage age was 16–17 for females and 18–19 for males.<ref name="Okely1983">{{cite book|last=Okely|first=Judith|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WCKt0jLk3qIC&pg=PA153|title=The traveller-gypsies|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=1983|isbn=978-0-521-24641-5|location=Cambridge [u.a.]|pages=153, 158}}</ref>{{rp|page=153}}

Irish Travellers lived as [[cohabiters]] who "married at one time without religious or civil ceremony."<ref name="Griffin2008">{{cite book|last=Griffin|first=Christopher|year=2008|title=Nomads under the Westway: Irish travellers, Gypsies and other traders in West London|location=Hatfield|publisher=University of Hertfordshire Press|isbn=978-1-902806-54-9|pages=246 247|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UTDwXE9YCdIC&pg=PA246}}</ref>{{rp|page=258}} Into the early 20th century about one-third of Irish Travellers were "married according to the law."<ref name="Griffin2008"/>{{rp|page=246}}

According to Christopher Griffin, sociology and anthropology lecturer at [[Edith Cowan University]], arranged Irish Traveller marriages in the early 21st century "safeguard the girl's {{interp|interests}} by securing a man who won't mistreat her."<ref name="Griffin2008"/>{{rp|page=247}} According to [[Julie Bindel]], in ''[[Standpoint (magazine)|Standpoint]]'', some Irish Traveller females in the UK are forced into marriages, but Bindel points out that data is difficult to obtain because "the line between an arranged marriage and a forced one is not always clear."<ref name="Bindel2012">{{cite journal|last=Bindel|first=Julie|date=January–February 2012|title=Forced marriages dishonour Britain|journal=Standpoint|issn=1757-1111|url=http://standpointmag.co.uk/node/4258/full|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120104131836/http://www.standpointmag.co.uk/node/4258/full|archive-date=2012-01-04|url-status=live}}</ref>