Although rates of child marriage vary between and within countries, most take place in rural sub-Saharan Africa and south Asia.
Accounts of their marriage vary: Richard Bowring writes that the marriage was happy, but Japanese literature scholar Haruo Shirane sees indications in her poems that she resented her husband.
Rates of interreligious marriage vary widely: In the United States, it is just under 50%, in the United Kingdom, around 53%; in France; around 30%, and in Australia and Mexico, as low as 10%.
However, studies looking at how marriage varies between states with different rules on eligibility for Medicaid, one of the largest of the many means-tested programmes, have failed to find a link.
Nepal is a culturally diverse country, and the prevalence of love marriages varies between communities, regions, castes and ethnic groups.
However, marriage practices vary considerably from culture to culture, ranging from strict prescriptions and arranged marriages in some societies to mostly unregulated courtship in others, presence to absence of brideservice and brideprice, and polyandrous to polygynous unions.
Body weight is likely to affect women's hours of work more than men's to the extent that women's marriage prospects vary more with body weight than men's (Mukhopadhyay 2008) and that intra-marriage income transfers are more likely to flow from men to women than in the opposite direction.
It is likely that the effects of marriage would vary depending on the cultural context and further investigation into the role of marriage in determining sexual risk among orphans is required.
A newly released poll found that although most Americans oppose gay marriage, views vary a lot by age.
Also, marriage laws vary from state to state, on issues like age of eligibility; so, he argues, there is no requirement of national uniformity, either.
