| If a husband has been unfaithful, he has to pay her family with a gift that equals the original bride price. |
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| When a man chooses a potential wife, he negotiates a bride price of money or cattle with the woman's father. |
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| Traditionally, the young man is expected to pay a bride price and move in with the wife's family on marriage. |
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| The groom is expected to pay a bride price in the form of cash and several animals. |
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| Here the husband pays the bride price for his future wife, which thus, however, turns the woman into a tradable good. |
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| Marriage rates have plunged in southern Africa since the 1970s, partly because young men cannot afford the lobola, or bride price, required in cattle. |
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| A marriageable daughter can bring in a bride price and mean one less mouth to feed. |
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| The father of the family decides to marry one of his daughters, Misozi, to a rich man who has paid him a high bride price. |
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| Issues of birth prohibitions, bride price and genderbased violence should also be addressed. |
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| In India, every 77 minutes a women dies at the hand of her husband or a family member because the bride price has not been paid. |
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| She may be forced to marry a brother-in-law or repay the bride price in full and leave the family compound. |
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| This is done to avoid the family of the barren woman from having to return the bride price paid by her parents to her husband's family. |
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| The girl's father was sentenced to three years in prison for marrying off his under-aged daughter for a bride price of 20 head of cattle. |
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| If she should run away to her parents' home, she may be chased back because the bride price is returnable. |
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| An apartment, the urban equivalent of the bride price, is even further out of reach. |
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| The bride price is paid by the groom's family to the bride's family and any children born to the married couple belong to the family of the husband in patrilineal societies. |
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| So grooms traditionally pay a bride price. |
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| More than two million of our girls have been sold for a bride price. |
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| Is dowry or bride price a customary requirement for marriage? |
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| In Cameroon levirate is especially practiced amongst the people of the North-West and Western Provinces under the premise that the bride price is paid by the husband's family. |
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| In a divorce a woman is required to return the bride price paid to her family, and her husband automatically gets custody of children of the marriage. |
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| Another concern is that, because of their lack of education, women often commit themselves to de facto unions based only on payment of a bride price or a religious ceremony. |
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| The customs of bride price and dowry that exist in many parts of the world can lead to buying and selling people into marriage. |
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