As Snaps tries to go legit and marry off his restless daughter, the plot develops a bad case of mistaken identities.

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"Poverty-struck families simply could not afford to feed those mouths, so they'd marry them off early, " said Mr Chapman.

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One man she thought she would marry broke off their relationship because he said he wasn't ready to be a father.

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It also tells the story of Zarina, whose fight to stay in school required her to resist her family's plan to marry her off at the age of 14.

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He cast himself as Prince Nikolaus von Wildeliebe-Rauffenburg, the hedonistic scion of a fading noble family whose parents want to marry him off to a homely corn-plaster heiress (Zasu Pitts).

NEWYORKER: The Wedding March

Shafia and Yahya admitted on the stand that they were upset with Zainab for running off to marry a Pakistani man they hated, that Sahar wore revealing clothes and had secret boyfriends, and Geeti was failing in school and calling social workers to get her out of a home in turmoil.

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The ebullient Mr Zuma, soon (it is said) to marry his sixth wife, is struggling to fend off a string of charges against him for corruption and tax evasion.

ECONOMIST: South Africa

Poor people marry at a much lower rate than those who are better off.

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Not only are the well-off and well-educated far more likely to marry and stay married than poorer folk, they tend to marry each other.

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When parents were asked how important it was for their children to marry someone Moroccan or of Moroccan origin, the Belgian parents were off the chart: 80% said it was very important, compared to 55% in Spain, 48% in the Netherlands, 32% in Italy, 43% in France and 24% in Germany.

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