As further causes, the report pointed to deeply rooted customs like the exchange of brides between two families, the betrothal of babies at birth, the giving of girls as brides to settle blood feuds, and the continued practice of polygamy in some regions.
McLennan introduced the terms exogamy (marriage outside the group, as in bride capture between warring tribes) and endogamy (marriage within a specific group, leading to monogamy and determination of kinship through males, rather than females).
The decision marks the first time parents have been held criminally responsible for a long-running child bride pipeline between Bountiful, BC and several American polygamist colonies.
The romance that the retailer is most interested in promoting is not the one between bride and groom but that between bride and gown.
Some men in Haryana are buying "brides" (for between 10,000 and 20,000 rupees) from other parts of India, or Bangladesh.
Thursday night started with a conventional father-of-the-bride embrace between Goodell and the top pick, Andrew Luck (Colts).
The Bafta-nominated BBC Three series has been commissioned for a six-part series on BBC One, featuring brides aged between 30 and 55.
Lucinka Eisler's bride, Frances, vacillates between graceful charm and eye-popping intensity.
Divorce followed swiftly, but the bond between bride and planner endured, according to Figliuolo.
Here is a village wedding in which the bride is torn between anticipation of married life and fear of losing her virginity, and in which the groom is at once heartily congratulated and admonished to plant hemp and get his wife to make cabbage soup.
