The European Wedding Pattern (EMP)

The European wedding Pattern has first been described by Hajnal in 1965. A high age at marriage for both men and women, the second being ‘neolocality’ and the third a very large number of singles that never married at all although Hajnal did https://brightbrides.net/review/blackcupid not give any details on how he thought this European Marriage Pattern had come into existence, he mentioned three features as being central to this pattern: the first being. Continue reading →