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I am telling this story because the culture at the time, certainly for working-class girls, was to leave school at 16, get an office job, get engaged at 18, marry at 20 and have their first child at 22.
They have to apply for a particular type of visa to do that, but the process of getting that visa is simpler than asking for a student or work visa, for example.
Such behaviour has become normalised because of technological advances and the fact that children have a mobile phone before they get to primary 1. I did not get one until I was 17.