A bridegroom and his family in China have shunned the traditional marriage custom in which the man pays the woman’s family a “bride price” that ranges from US$1,400 to US$138,000, boldly displaying their decision on a placard.
If Beijing really wants encourage marriage, rather than putting pressure on women and their family to stop this admittedly problematic custom, it should address the gender inequalities that make marriage unattractive to women.
A man in China who raped his fiancee has been jailed for three years despite the woman’s family trying to force the victim to go ahead with the wedding after the crime.
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Textile trader Yusuf Abdullahi admitted he could not afford to marry despite being 30 years old until Nigeria's northern Kano state financed and staged mass weddings for 1,800 couples.The mass wedding programme has helped boost Kano's economic development by providing work to furniture makers, hospitality workers and textile traders, Yusuf said.