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Arranged marriage

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Arranged marriage is a type of marital union where the bride and groom are selected by individuals other than the couple themselves, particularly family members, such as the parents. [1]

56 relations: Amish, Ann Cryer, Arab Christians, Arranged marriage in the Indian subcontinent, Bride kidnapping, Bride price, Child marriage, Consanguinity, Copts, Cousin marriage, Dowry, Endogamy, Engagement, Family, Feminist Legal Studies, Forced marriage, Gandharva marriage, Hansard, Hindu, Homogamy (sociology), Incest, Lavender marriage, Log Kya Kahenge, Mail-order bride, Marriage, Marriage in Pakistan, Marriage in South Korea, Marriage market, Marriage of convenience, Marriage of state, Marriageable age, Married at First Sight, Matchmaking, Matrimonial website, Miai, Middle East, Moral blindness, Name change, Orthodox Judaism, Picture Bride (film), Placement marriage, Quartz (publication), Redorer son blason, Renaissance, Royal intermarriage, Shidduch, Shotgun wedding, South Asia, Spouse, Springer Science+Business Media, ..., Tongyangxi, United Kingdom, United Nations, Vani (custom), Veto, Watta satta. Expand index (6 more) »

Amish

The Amish (Pennsylvania German: Amisch, Amische) are a group of traditionalist Christian church fellowships with Swiss German Anabaptist origins.

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Ann Cryer

Constance Ann Cryer JP (born 14 December 1939) is a former British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Keighley from the 1997 general election up until she stood down at the 2010 general election.

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Arab Christians

Arab Christians (مسيحيون عرب Masīḥiyyūn ʿArab) are Arabs of the Christian faith.

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Arranged marriage in the Indian subcontinent

Arranged marriage in the Indian subcontinent is a tradition in the societies of the Indian subcontinent, and continue to account for an overwhelming majority of marriages in the Indian subcontinent.

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Bride kidnapping

Bride kidnapping, also known as marriage by abduction or marriage by capture, is a practice in which a man abducts the woman he wishes to marry.

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Bride price

Bride price, bridewealth, or bride token, is money, property, or other form of wealth paid by a groom or his family to the family of the woman he will be married or is just about to marry.

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Child marriage

Child marriage is a formal marriage or informal union entered into by an individual before reaching a certain age, specified by several global organizations such as UNICEF as minors under the age of 18.

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Consanguinity

Consanguinity ("blood relation", from the Latin consanguinitas) is the property of being from the same kinship as another person.

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Copts

The Copts (ⲚⲓⲢⲉⲙ̀ⲛⲭⲏⲙⲓ ̀ⲛ̀Ⲭⲣⲏⲥⲧⲓ̀ⲁⲛⲟⲥ,; أقباط) are an ethnoreligious group indigenous to North Africa who primarily inhabit the area of modern Egypt, where they are the largest Christian denomination in the country.

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Cousin marriage

Cousin marriage is marriage between cousins (i.e. people with common grandparents or people who share other fairly recent ancestors).

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Dowry

A dowry is a transfer of parental property, gifts or money at the marriage of a daughter.

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Endogamy

Endogamy is the practice of marrying within a specific social group, caste or ethnic group, rejecting those from others as unsuitable for marriage or other close personal relationships.

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Engagement

An engagement, betrothal, or fiancer is a promise to wed, and also the period of time between a marriage proposal and a marriage.

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Family

Every person has his/her own family.mother reproduces with husband for children.In the context of human society, a family (from familia) is a group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth), affinity (by marriage or other relationship), or co-residence (as implied by the etymology of the English word "family" from Latin familia 'family servants, domestics collectively, the servants in a household,' thus also 'members of a household, the estate, property; the household, including relatives and servants,' abstract noun formed from famulus 'servant, slave ') or some combination of these.

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Feminist Legal Studies

Feminist Legal Studies is a triannual peer-reviewed legal journal with an international perspective which focuses on feminist work in all areas of law, legal theory and legal practice.

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Forced marriage

Forced marriage is a marriage in which one or more of the parties is married without his or her consent or against his or her will.

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Gandharva marriage

A Gandharva Marriage (Sanskrit: गन्धर्व विवाह, pronounced gənd̪ʱərvə vɪvaːhə) is one of the eight classical types of Hindu marriage.

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Hansard

Hansard is the traditional name of the transcripts of Parliamentary Debates in Britain and many Commonwealth countries.

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Hindu

Hindu refers to any person who regards themselves as culturally, ethnically, or religiously adhering to aspects of Hinduism.

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Homogamy (sociology)

Homogamy is marriage between individuals who are, in some culturally-important way, similar to each other.

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Incest

Incest is sexual activity between family members or close relatives.

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Lavender marriage

A lavender marriage is a male-female marriage in which one or both of the partners is homosexual, pansexual or bisexual.

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Log Kya Kahenge

Log Kya Kahenge (What Will People Think) is a 1983 Indian Bollywood film produced and directed by B. R. Ishara.

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Mail-order bride

A mail-order bride is a woman who lists herself in catalogs and is selected by a man for marriage.

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Marriage

Marriage, also called matrimony or wedlock, is a socially or ritually recognised union between spouses that establishes rights and obligations between those spouses, as well as between them and any resulting biological or adopted children and affinity (in-laws and other family through marriage).

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Marriage in Pakistan

Marriage in Pakistan (پاکستانی شادی) pertains to wedding traditions established and adhered by Pakistani men and women.

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Marriage in South Korea

Marriage in South Korea is similar to that in the West, but has unique features of its own, especially due to the influence of Korean Confucianism.

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Marriage market

A marriage market can refer to a public place where parents list advertisements for their children with the aim of finding a marital spouse for them.

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Marriage of convenience

A marriage of convenience (plural marriages of convenience) is a marriage contracted for reasons other than that of relationship, family, or love.

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Marriage of state

A marriage of state is a diplomatic marriage or union between two members of different nation-states or internally, between two power blocs, usually in authoritarian societies and is a practice which dates back into pre-history, as far back as early Grecian cultures in western society, and of similar antiquity in other civilizations.

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Marriageable age

Marriageable age (or marriage age) is the minimum age at which a person is allowed by law to marry, either as a right or subject to parental or other forms of consent.

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Married at First Sight

Married at First Sight is a Danish reality television show created by Michael Von Würden which has versions in several countries, including.

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Matchmaking

Matchmaking is the process of matching two or more people together, usually for the purpose of marriage, but the word is also used in the context of sporting events such as boxing, in business, in online video games and in pairing organ donors.

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Matrimonial website

Matrimonial websites, or marriage websites, are a variation of the standard dating websites.

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Miai

or is a Japanese traditional custom in which a woman and a man are introduced to each other to consider the possibility of marriage.

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Middle East

The Middle Easttranslit-std; translit; Orta Şərq; Central Kurdish: ڕۆژھەڵاتی ناوین, Rojhelatî Nawîn; Moyen-Orient; translit; translit; translit; Rojhilata Navîn; translit; Bariga Dhexe; Orta Doğu; translit is a transcontinental region centered on Western Asia, Turkey (both Asian and European), and Egypt (which is mostly in North Africa).

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Moral blindness

Moral blindness is a state of unawareness or insensibility to moral issues pertaining both to oneself and to one's relations to others.

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Name change

Name change generally refers to the legal act by a person of adopting a new name different from their name at birth, marriage or adoption.

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Orthodox Judaism

Orthodox Judaism is a collective term for the traditionalist branches of Judaism, which seek to maximally maintain the received Jewish beliefs and observances and which coalesced in opposition to the various challenges of modernity and secularization.

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Picture Bride (film)

Picture Bride is an American Japanese-language 1995 feature-length independent film directed by Kayo Hatta from a screenplay she co-wrote with Mari Hatta, and co-produced by Diane Mei Lin Mark and Lisa Onodera.

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Placement marriage

The term placement marriage (also known as the law of placing) refers to arranged marriages between members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS Church).

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Quartz (publication)

Quartz (qz.com) is a news website owned by Atlantic Media.

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Redorer son blason

Redorer son blason (literally "to re-gild one's coat of arms") was a social practice taking place in France before the French Revolution whereby a poor aristocratic family married a daughter to a rich commoner.

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Renaissance

The Renaissance is a period in European history, covering the span between the 14th and 17th centuries.

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Royal intermarriage

Royal intermarriage is the practice of members of ruling dynasties marrying into other reigning families.

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Shidduch

The Shidduch (שִׁדּוּךְ, pl. shidduchim, Aramaic שידוכין) is a system of matchmaking in which Jewish singles are introduced to one another in Orthodox Jewish communities for the purpose of marriage.

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Shotgun wedding

A shotgun wedding is a wedding that is arranged to avoid embarrassment due to premarital sex possibly leading to an unintended pregnancy, rather than out of the desire of the participants.

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South Asia

South Asia or Southern Asia (also known as the Indian subcontinent) is a term used to represent the southern region of the Asian continent, which comprises the sub-Himalayan SAARC countries and, for some authorities, adjoining countries to the west and east.

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Spouse

A spouse is a life partner in a marriage, civil union, or common-law marriage.

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Springer Science+Business Media

Springer Science+Business Media or Springer, part of Springer Nature since 2015, is a global publishing company that publishes books, e-books and peer-reviewed journals in science, humanities, technical and medical (STM) publishing.

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Tongyangxi

Tongyangxi, also known as Shim-pua marriage in Min Nan dialects (and in phonetic Hokkien transcription using Chinese characters: 新婦仔), was a tradition of arranged marriage dating back to pre-modern China, in which a family would adopt a pre-adolescent daughter as a future bride for one of their pre-adolescent (usually infant) sons, and the children would be raised together.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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United Nations

The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization tasked to promote international cooperation and to create and maintain international order.

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Vani (custom)

Vani (ونی), or Swara (سوارہ), is a cultural custom found in parts of Pakistan and Afghanistan whereby a young girl is forcibly married as part of punishment for a crime committed by her male relatives.

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Veto

A veto – Latin for "I forbid" – is the power (used by an officer of the state, for example) to unilaterally stop an official action, especially the enactment of legislation.

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Watta satta

Watta satta or shighar(،شغار،وٹہ سٹہ.), is a type of marriage common in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arranged_marriage

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