\[ **BT: [[countries of the world]]** ] --- # Gambia [[In some societies, it is easier to divorce when a marriage has not produced offspring.|In Gambia, it is easier to divorce when a marriage has not produced offspring.]][^1] [[In Gambia, women only formally marry after they have produced one or two children in their natal home.]][^2] - see also: - [[society#marriage laws and customs|marriage: laws and customs]] - [[society#divorce laws and customs|divorce: laws and customs]] [^1]: Juan Du and Ruth Mace, ‘[[Du and Mace, ‘Marriage Stability in a Pastoralist Society’, 2019|Marriage Stability in a Pastoralist Society]]’, *Behavioural Ecology*m vol. 30, no. 6 (8 November 2019), p. 1567, <https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arz115>. [^2]: Juan Du and Ruth Mace, ‘[[Du and Mace, ‘Marriage Stability in a Pastoralist Society’, 2019|Marriage Stability in a Pastoralist Society]]’, *Behavioural Ecology*, vol. 30, no. 6 (8 November 2019), p. 1567, <https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arz115>.