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# 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>.