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Marriage

A legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife.
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The same applies to other less widespread cultural practices mentioned earlier-such as sororate and levitate marriages.
An assessment of the constitutional, legislative and judicial measures against harmful cultural practices that violate sexual and reproductive rights of women in South Africa
The main causes of trouble families or relations were: poverty, remarriages, extramarital relations, polygamy (plural marriages), polygyny (The condition or practice of having more than one wife at one time), levirate (The levirate decrees a dead man's brother to be the widow's preferred marriage partner) and sororate (The sororate decrees the marriage of a man to his deceased wife's sister).
Changing Family Structure and Increasing Trend of Street Children in Pakistan
Nthlapo, "The African Family and Women's Rights: Friends or Foes?" in African Customary Law (Cape Town: Juta & Co, 1991) 135 (noting that certain customary law and tradition are often considered discriminatory against women: polygamy, lobolo, the levirate, the sororate, child betrothal and mourning taboos).
Traditional authority and democracy in the interim South African Constitution

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