Such matchmakers, along with parents, often choose a wife for a young male from his own family, where the woman’s reputation, social and financial standing is clear. Cousins often marry, on the condition that the cousin is from the father's side, guaranteeing the continuation of the family name.
Typical Arab inbreeding. At least if they marry older Western women, they'll be more likely to have healthy children.
2 posted on 03/02/2007 7:03:19 AM PST by Tax-chick
(Every "choice" has a direct object.)