Social scientists refer to the process of searching for, finding and choosing a marriage partner as mate selection. Selection of partner for marriage is one of the most important decisions for lifetime. It affects not only success in this world but has a profound effect on happiness or misery in this world. We can change our careers, our occupations, our homes, our friends but we cannot change our life-mates; they are partners until death.
Every human society has some kind of mate selection procedure which functions to sort out males and females as marriage partners. The methods and processes for doing this differ from soci¬ety to society, and from time to time in a given society.
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