Among them teenage pregnancies are rare and often followed by marriage, sometimes at the point of a metaphorical shotgun.
The settlers formed an aristocracy, but it was one which educated indigenous people could join, by talent or by marriage.
Critical appointments include the installment of Vice Marshal Jang Song-u, a Kim relative by marriage, to command of all forces around the capital of Pyongyang.
Born on the fringe of the Virginian planter aristocracy, George Washington became a grandee by marriage, proprietor of thousands of acres and master of hundreds of slaves.
An American, he was related both by background and by marriage to the country he was writing about, and he covered the war from the beginning, at times with a Serb price on his head.
He made his fortune out of privatisation deals in the early 1990s, helped by connections by marriage to one of Hungary's leading Communist-era dynasties though he fiercely denies having done anything illegal or even to be ashamed of.
Illuminated manuscripts provided the ideal portable art form for a peripatetic court that moved regularly from its base in Dijon up through the Low Countries it had absorbed by marriage and conquest in the late 14th century.
Already their numbers have been decimated by marriage and migration. (Some 40, 000 Macanese now live abroad.) They and their once-graceful port at the mouth of the Pearl River will have a hard time maintaining a distinct identity under mainland rule.
Tahir, who is also now qualified by marriage to play for South Africa, claimed 96 first-class wickets for Hampshire during two seasons at the Rose Bowl - 44 of those coming in just seven matches in 2008 as he helped them avoid relegation.
Perhaps the biggest blow of all suffered by the organisation was last week's death in an American bombing raid in Afghanistan of Mohammed Atef, a relative by marriage of Mr bin Laden, and described in an American court paper as al-Qaeda's military commander.
In his pre-Christmas message, Pope Benedict XVI rallied Catholics to oppose gay marriage by praising comments critical of gay marriage made by Gilles Bernheim, the chief rabbi of France, raising the prospect of an inter-faith alliance, according to many commentators.
But the gender characteristics of voter patterns were nearly canceled out by the marriage gap.
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Before then, Grandage will direct Evita on Broadway, followed by the Marriage of Figaro at Glyndebourne, and Red in Los Angeles.
Once promising partners are identified, they are often vetted by traditional marriage-brokers.
He reckons that the only way Japanese women can manage their difficult lives is by postponing marriage and having fewer, if any, children.
Some 200 journalists have been accredited to cover the wedding, many from overseas, signaling the global interest in the social landmark represented by the marriage.
The couple is still happily hitched, a fact that has led to their naming as the "longest married couple" in the U.S. for 2013 by Worldwide Marriage Encounter, a Christian marriage group based in San Bernardino, Calif.
He spoke before the Commons approved same-sex marriage in England and Wales by voting for the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill, by a majority of 225.
But the federal Defense of Marriage Act signed by President Clinton defines marriage as between a man and a woman.
The tax relief package honors marriage and family by reducing the unfair marriage penalty and doubling the credit for children.
The NSPCC says the practice has no medical benefits but is motivated by cultural beliefs about preparing a girl for adulthood and marriage by making her "clean, chaste and faithful".
Perhaps, I suggested, some women are traumatised by being abducted and forced into marriage or by losing their children?
As one put it, civil unions really are marriage by another name, so fairness would dictate that they be called marriage.
Chief Justice Roberts suggested he might agree that an important part of the institution of marriage was the ability to have children, an argument made by gay-marriage opponents.
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That's the message being given by the Emirates Marriage Fund, which is trying to curb the practise of lavish weddings by its own nationals in this Gulf state.
There was no majority apparent for any particular outcome, and many doubts were expressed by justices about the arguments advanced by lawyers for the opponents of gay marriage in California, by the supporters and by the Obama administration, which is in favor of same-sex marriage rights.
The book, by Paula Szuchman and Jenny Anderson, offers a hilarious and valid twist to standard marriage advice by showing how economics yes, economics is the key to a happy marriage .
The report recommended sponsors should be interviewed by officials whenever there is a suspicion of forced marriage, by a GP or another third party.
Often, plots had to be dismantled by prosecuting terrorists for immigration violations and marriage fraud or by simply frustrating their ability to get the material they needed.
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