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Ukrainian wedding is the traditional marriage ceremony in Ukrainian culture, both in Ukraine and in the Ukrainian diaspora. The traditional Ukrainian wedding featured a rich assortment of folk music and singing, dancing, and visual art, with rituals dating back to the pre-Christian era.
Traditional Ukrainian wedding – is a wedding in Ukrainian folk everyday life – a complex mixture of rites of different days, in which elements of the ancestral exogamic era, Greek-Byzantine religious-mystical influences and newer Ukrainian ones are distinguished. [1] V. Tropinin "Wedding in Kukavka in Podillia" Josyp Brandt "Wedding of ...
Marriage in Ukraine may be performed as a religious ceremony and since the Russian Revolution in 1917, a civil ceremony. [1] The minimum legal age someone can be married is 18 for men and women, although was previously 17 for girls. [ 1 ]
As of 2010, there are several women's rights groups active in Ukraine, [11] [12] [13] including Feminist Ofenzyva [14] and Ukrainian Woman's Union. [15] FEMEN, the most active women's rights group in Kyiv, was officially closed in 2013. The organization left Ukraine because the leadership feared "for their lives and freedom". [16] [17] [18]
Family names are generally inherited from one's parents. As in English, on marriage, women usually adopt the surname of the husband; the opposite, when the husband adopt the maiden surname of his wife, very rarely occurs. Rarely, both spouses keep their pre-marriage family names.
In the United States, the mean age at first marriage is about 32 for men and about 30.8 for women, putting the average age at first marriage at about 31.4 for both genders. However, in India, it is even lower, at about 30 for men and about 27.2 for women, putting the average age at first marriage at about 28.6 for both genders. [citation needed]
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The Family Code of Ukraine stipulates that the family is the primary and basic unit of society. The family consists of persons who live together living together, connected by common life, have mutual rights and duties. According to the Constitution of Ukraine, marriage is based on the free consent of a woman and man (Article 51).