Marriage markets

Marriage markets transfer girls and young women from the third world to industrialized societies which often deliberately lead them to prostitution.

1. Trafficking in women
2. Traffic in persons
3. Servile forms of marriage
4. Moral offences in heterosexual pairing

1. Premature marriage
2. Marriages of convenience
3. Marriage by proxy
4. Dependency of women in marriage

1. Shortage of marriageable women
2. Inadequate national law enforcement
3. Forced marriage
4. Commercialization of romance
5. Arranged marriage

1. Difficulty finding marriage partner

1. Susceptibility of the impoverished to drug trafficking
2. Prostitution

1. Permitting free-choice marriage