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Name the factors that have hindered dowry payment.

Name the factors that have hindered dowry payment.

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Eric
1. Economic hardships – many people are not able to raise money to pay dowry.
2. Dowry payment is no longer a communal affair but an individual affair.
3. Marriage has been commercialized - many people demand higher payment for their
daughter.
4. There has been a lot of interference from Christian religious beliefs.
5. Modern education and western culture has affected dowry payment in that many educated
attach little value to dowry payment.
6. The permissive society has also encouraged trial marriages.
7. There are also cases of inter-tribal marriages.
8. Many people have migrated to towns where people come from different backgrounds.
ericmunguti answered the question on September 26, 2018 at 06:58

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