# Gambia ## Divorce [[2024-0415. In rural Gambia, divorce is common when they are no offspring, and women formally marry only after producing one or two children.|'In rural Gambia, for example, divorce is common when there are no offspring, and women formally marry only after they have produced one or two children in their natal home (i.e., after providing evidence of their fertility).']][^1] [^1]: Juan Du and Ruth Mace, ‘[[Du & Mace. ‘Marriage Stability in a Pastoralist Society’, 2019.|Marriage Stability in a Pastoralist Society]]’, *Behavioural Ecology* 30, no. 6 (8 November 2019), p. 1.