Individual selects and/or courts partner autonomously: approval by parents or others unnecessary
Individual selects and/or courts partner authonomously: parental, kin, and/or community approval necessary or highly desireable
Individual suggests partner to parents or others; arrangements for courtship or marriage then proceed if choice is approved OR parents ask approval of individuals to initiate a match OR individual is approached by parent or others on behalf of suitor and can accept or reject the match
Individual choice and arranged marriages are alternatives
Parents choose partner: individual can object
Parents choose partner: individual cannot easily object or rarely objects in fact

Widow chooses new husband herself with no outside interferences
Remarriage into first husbands kin group usually or preferred, but widow can choose new husband from elsewhere if she wishes
Widow chooses new husband herself, but from first husbands kin group or community
Widows husbands kin chooses new husband
Remarriage is absent, uncommon, or strongly disapproved

Expected, accepted, tolerated, not disapproved
Mildly disapproved, e.g., attempts by others to reconcile couple, marriages expected to be permanent but divorce accepted without stigma if inevitable
Approved if reasons are considered justified; otherwise disapproved
Expected, accepted, tolerated, not disapproved in first years of marriage and/or before children; otherwise disapproved
Strongly disapproved; stigma attached to divorce

No grounds necessary for divorce; divorce equaly easy or difficult with out without justification
Grounds not absolutely necessary, but divorce is financially, legally and/or socially earlier with them
Divorce only with grounds
No divorce

No grounds necessary for divorce; divorce equally easy or difficult with or without justification
Grounds not absolutely necessary, but divorce is financially, legally and/or socially earier with them
Divorce only with grounds
No divorce

Couple goes off alone or is secluded for some period
Special schedules set up to allow couple to spend time together; e.g., coule given special dispensation to work together, visit or receive visitors together
Special schedules set up for newlyweds, but not necessarily for the purpose of allowing them time together, e.g., wife excused from housework, visitors received by spouses separately, wife secluded
No special arrangements for newlyweds
Newlyweds avoid each others, either by tradition or from shyness