African societies have creatively adapted marriage and kinship to meet economic and social needs. More than a marriage practice, woman-marriage has been an assertion of female agency, an economic ...

Roundtable: African-Americans and Marriage Topic: the status of marriage in the African-American community: Guests: Joy Jones, author of Between Black Women: Listening With the Third Ear; William ...

African-American Women and Marriage Disparity The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies reports that by age 30, only half of African-American Women are likely to tie the knot.

I can’t say, of course, how the U.S. Supreme Court will rule on the same-sex marriage cases before it. But I can talk about how South African courts grappled with the issue in 2005, after a case ...

African governments should coordinate action to improve laws, education, health care, and public awareness to end the scourge of child marriage, Human Rights Watch said today on International ...

Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York, said that he and his wife were going to the African country ...

For African-American women, the marriage rate is even lower. According to the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, by the age of thirty nearly 81 percent of white women and 77 percent ...

Another issue that affects African marriage is the dowry, or exchange of gifts, as compensation for the girl. The more dowry awarded, the more the girl will be respected by the new family; ...

The South African parliament Tuesday overwhelmingly approved legislation recognizing gay marriages — a first for a continent where homosexuality is largely taboo. By a vote of 230-41 with three ...

The Church in Africa generally faces the same problems experienced around the globe. And just like in other regions, some of the major pastoral challenges in ministering to marriage and the family ...