The view that underaged girls might be ready for marriage because they look like adults should be corrected, an Amanah MP says.

"That is a view that needs to be corrected. We don't marry because you have the body of an adult," Kota Raja MP Siti Mariah Mahmud said at a press conference in the Parliament media room today.

She added that if the bodies of girls were to be a benchmark, then psychological assessment must be done to determine if they're actually ready for marriage...