A bride-to-be on Reddit said her father sent out a PDF version of her wedding invite to distant cousins and people that she's never met without telling her Getty A bride-to-be says she's "raging" mad ...
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The family of the founder of Peace of Jerusalem Revival Ministry, Prophetess Lilian Chibuzor Abua, has said that the four children she had for her ex-husband, Prophet Ayodeji Obayan, would not bear ...
Different tribes have different traditions when it comes to the bride price and for today, the focus will be on the Urhobo tribe. This is one of the tribes where the bride price is as low as they come ...
If you grew up in the West, you might have thought that exchanges of money between families when their children got married was a practice that ended at least centuries ago. That practice is still a ...
This is the first article in a series on bride prices. Few topics are the subject of more debate — or more clickbait headlines — in China than the sky-high bride prices found in some rural areas. Last ...
Terrorism experts have long known that poverty is a factor in tempting young men to join radical terrorist groups, but what about bride prices? A new article in MIT Press Journal argues that many ...
A woman whose bride price has not been paid is often viewed as "cheap." This has sparked debates on social media. These demands are seen as a barrier to matrimony, with men stating that the financial ...
The semantic domain of "carrying" is culturally salient in the Oceanic language, Longgu. Like many Austronesian languages, Longgu has about a dozen lexically specific verbs that refer to modes of ...
Senior Chief Theresa Kachindamoto and activists fight against cultural sexism in Malawi. Featuring Chief Theresa Kachindamoto and activists, THE BRIDE PRICE explores underage marriage, sexually ...
This is the second article in a series on bride prices. Part one, on how the practice varies by region, can be found here. Bai, a doctor who runs a clinic in a largely rural county in northwestern ...