The world is changing faster than ever, yet something unexpected is happening in the marriage customs of several nations. While Western societies often assume arranged marriages are fading into ...

Numbers of marriages in China dropped to 6.1 million in 2024, an exceptionally steep fall of 20.5 percent from the prior year. The continuing decline in marriage rates likely presages yet further ...

In recent years, marriage brokers have become increasingly active in pairing Bangladeshi women with Chinese men. A search for the term “Bangladeshi girls” (孟加拉女孩) on Chinese social media and ...

A study of individuals from five non-Western societies where both arranged and free-choice marriages are practiced found no differences between people in these two types of marriages in the three ...