To: nickcarraway
Why did her parents agree to marry her off at such a young age?
3 posted on
05/15/2015 10:45:09 PM PDT by
muggs
(Hope and Change = Hoax and Chains)
To: muggs
Did the parents of the boy want to guarantee him a wife, and have funds that the girl’s family wanted?
This is rather extreme even for a matchmaker society.
4 posted on
05/15/2015 11:01:41 PM PDT by
HiTech RedNeck
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To: muggs
>> Why did her parents agree to marry her off at such a young age?
Doesn’t get much younger than “baby”.
8 posted on
05/16/2015 1:20:22 AM PDT by
Gene Eric
(Don't be a statist!)
To: muggs
I’m going to guess that (like Muslims) the groom’s family has to put up a “bride price”, which the bride’s family must now refund if the marriage does not happen. Possibly the girl’s family needed the money.
11 posted on
05/16/2015 3:11:42 AM PDT by
SauronOfMordor
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