Talk:Bride kidnapping

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The following revision I feel is inaccurate, here. What I have a problem with is this part:

The mechanism is simple and brutal. The man kidnaps the woman and rapes her, and she is then considered to be his wife.

This is not how it works in at least Kyrgyzstan. There they kidnap the bride and take her back to their house and try to convince her to marry through peer pressure. The women of the groom's family are primarily the ones involved. They call up relatives of the bride to try to get them to convince her to stay. There is no rape involved though, and most of the time they let her go if she can not be convinced to marry. I know that this is true of Kyrgyzstan, but also believe it is true of the nearby countries who participate in bride kidnappings. Maybe the rape practice is of Ethiopia and Rwanda? I'm not familiar with the tradition there. I changed the article to show the difference in the practice. Let me know if you know of the rape practice being part of the middle asian tradition in any of those countries. --MateoP 16:10, 11 September 2005 (UTC)