Sometimes marriages take place between members of the clans to effect a compromise and seal the peace .

According to a government survey, more than half of the child marriages in Bangladesh happen with the insistence of the parents.

You're going to see people be born and die dots will appear and disappear ties will form and break, marriages and divorces, friendings and defriendings.

These daughters of foreign kings are often only mentioned in cuneiform texts and are not known from other sources.

On 22 January 1935, he married Nancy Isobel Myers (1912 1983), the first of his four marriages.

Women who are required to enter into such marriages are not necessarily consulted or their views given due weight.

The Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission estimates that between 60 and 80 per cent of marriages in the country are forced marriages.

We are, after all, the new generation and it's best that girls do get married to who their heart desires, rather than end locked up in loveless barren same faith marriages!

However, in many areas of our country, there are recurrent traditional marriages involving adults with girls aged less than 12 years, and these subsequently enter into precocious sexual activity, without any sanctioning to the perpetrators.

However, although the age for civil marriage had been raised, there were, according to outside information, many marriages without civil standing performed according to religious rites, especially in Anatolia, where young child brides were involved.

Ms. Akşit (Turkey) said that 93 per cent of marriages in Turkey were recognized civil marriages and only 7.5 per cent were religious marriages that had no standing under the law, but which the Government was trying to record as unofficial marriages.