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

No period of mourning: remarriage as soon as possible
Over two months but less than one year of mourning

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

Moderate: a small minority of couples divorce
Frequent in first years of marriage and/or before children; rare thereafter

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