21.   Women in the first group have become more desirable as marriage partners, he said, but also feel less necessity to be married.

22.   People of mixed racial background often face social ostracism as children and discrimination in finding jobs and marriage partners later in life.

23.   By law, a married person can get a divorce after two years of separation provided his or her marriage partner agrees.

24.   Court rules woman can choose marriage partner.

25.   Members of the Rabari tribe, who often live in remote villages, use the bazaar as an annual meeting place to find marriage partners for their children.

26.   Newspapers have reported cases of mentally disordered Turks being used as marriage partners without their knowledge.

27.   Sayako, who is not married, also commented on recent media reports mentioning specific people as prospective marriage partners.

28.   A Japanese computer company has taken dating services into the cyber age, offering on-line pictures and curriculum vitaes of several hundred men and women looking for marriage partners.