• A knobstick wedding is the forced marriage of a pregnant single woman with the man known or believed to be the father. It derives its name from the staves...
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  • South Africa. From the Afrikaans knopkierie The Knobstick, an 1893 novel by C. Allen Clarke Knobstick wedding, a forced marriage of a pregnant single woman...
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  • had not always followed social convention, resulting in shotgun or Knobstick weddings. In the United Kingdom, one source reports that almost 40% of all...
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    to reunite. Child marriage (2008–2014): Summary: Arranged marriage Knobstick wedding Forced conversion of minority girls in Pakistan Birth control sabotage...
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    Jasu. Temporary shrines are set up on the yard, in front of which the wedding ceremony takes place. Four banana trees act as the pillars of the shrine...
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  • Japan's wedding industry to introduce an even more benign phrase, sazukari-kon (授かり婚, blessed wedding). Shotgun wedding Forced marriage Knobstick wedding Premarital...
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    Timorese wedding traditions (Indonesian: Berlaki, Portuguese: Barlaque, Tetum: Barlake) apply to marriages on the island of Timor, which is divided between...
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    She cites a word which may be vulgar but which she finds expressive ("knobstick") and uses a local term ("redding up" – tidying) to Boucher's small children:...
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