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Relationship => Marriage & Family Life => Topic started by: theking on April 24, 2022, 09:38:47 PM

Title: Can't say I blame these girls because bride-napping is as primitive as it gets
Post by: theking on April 24, 2022, 09:38:47 PM

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'Bride kidnapping' haunts rural Kyrgyzstan, causing young women to flee their homeland

There are many types of forced marriage in this world, but perhaps the most dramatic is marriage by abduction, or bride kidnapping. Bride kidnapping is common in parts of sub-Saharan Africa, the Caucasus and Central Asia. In rural Kyrgyzstan, where over 60% of the country’s population lives, surveys suggests 1 in 3 marriages begins with a kidnapping.
(https://today.duke.edu/sites/default/files/styles/story_hero/public/kidnap%20crop_0.jpg?itok=pC7gC-yw)

Title: Re: Can't say I blame these girls because bride-napping is as primitive as it gets
Post by: ProudLao on April 25, 2022, 09:50:45 AM

The men in their lives should be ashamed for condoning this.

Title: Re: Can't say I blame these girls because bride-napping is as primitive as it gets
Post by: theking on April 25, 2022, 11:06:20 PM

Yep, agreed!

But unfortunately, primitive is primitive does for many of them...even if it's already 2022...

Title: Re: Can't say I blame these girls because bride-napping is as primitive as it gets
Post by: Reporter on April 26, 2022, 02:29:50 PM

Societies like that are still abundant.