Marriage of the Wa

The Wa enjoy sexual freedom before the marriage. From certain age the young people of both sexes meets to sing and dance in the room of the young people, he is pairing off and sleep together.

When one arises a special feeling between two young people establishes the official engagement, in which the couple lives together but which it does not transform into marriage until the woman remains a pregnant woman.

The marriage, the parents usually respect the desires of the children. The wedding lasts approximately three days, in which it takes the fiancée to the house of the fiancé. The fiancé pays costly gifts for the fiancée, and sometimes they pay them up to his progeny.

Monogamist generally, they were admitting the divorce and the widows' transference.

Although in his mythology they speak about a matriarchal society, at present the men occupy the principal roles, and can be unbelievers, while the women remain submitted to them. There do not marry between relatives of the same surname, which were violating this taboo were punished. Frequent marriage between cousins, son of maternal uncle with daughter of paternal aunt.

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