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Hypergamy (colloquially referred to as "dating up" or "marrying up" [1]) is a term used in social science for the act or practice of a person dating or marrying a spouse of higher social status or sexual capital than themselves. The antonym "hypogamy" [a] refers to the inverse: marrying a person of lower social class or status (colloquially ...
Hypergamy is generally woman with little or no education and/or poor earning capacity (long term, anyway) and youth/attractiveness (fertility markers) marrying wealthy and/or high status men (of any age or appearance level). Hypergamy = more money. The man can be uneducated peasant but won 3 millions lottery.
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It wasn’t until nearly a decade later that they began to rethink the idea when their 4-year-old son popped the question. “He came home one day, and he asked us what a bastard was,” Elaine said.
Polygyny is more widespread in Africa than in any other continent. [2] Some scholars theorize that the slave trade's impact on the male-to-female sex ratio was a key factor in the emergence and fortification of polygynous practices in regions of Africa.
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The number of childfree women is at a record high: 48 percent of women between the ages of 18 and 44 don’t have kids, according to 2014 Census numbers. The Huffington Post and YouGov asked 124 women why they choose to be childfree.
Exogamy is the social norm of mating or marrying outside one's social group.The group defines the scope and extent of exogamy, and the rules and enforcement mechanisms that ensure its continuity.