Bride price, bride-dowry, bride-wealth, bride service or bride token, is money, property, or other form of wealth paid by a groom or his family to the...

The Bride Price is a 1976 novel by Nigerian writer Buchi Emecheta. It was first published in the UK by Allison & Busby, and in the USA by George Braziller...

to the practice of bride price, wealth paid by the groom and his family to the bride's parents, and the inability or unwillingness to pay it. Bride kidnapping...

While bride price or bride service is a payment by the groom, or his family, to the bride, or her family, dowry is the wealth transferred from the bride, or...

Others include The Bride Price (1976), The Slave Girl (1977) and The Joys of Motherhood (1979). Emecheta has been characterized as "the first successful...

is expected to spend much of the bride price on the bride herself, so there is a reduced incentive to gain a higher price by avoiding cousin marriage....

persist regarding the legal status of married women, leniency towards violence within marriage, customs such as dowry and bride price, marriageable age...

The bride price, commonly referred to as a dowry is a gift of money or goods given to the family of the bride by the groom or his family. With the outnumbering...

the custom of bride price. Some studies of mitochondrial DNA have shown that there have been more mothers than fathers in the genetic record of the human...

cohabitation and a court approval of the engagement. Some factors that encourage child marriages include poverty, bride price, dowries, cultural traditions,...