{"id":1163059,"date":"2022-08-01T09:38:16","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T09:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/01\/most-men-maltreat-their-wives-because-of-the-expensive-bride-price-they-paid-pastor-argues\/"},"modified":"2022-08-01T09:38:16","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T09:38:16","slug":"most-men-maltreat-their-wives-because-of-the-expensive-bride-price-they-paid-pastor-argues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/01\/most-men-maltreat-their-wives-because-of-the-expensive-bride-price-they-paid-pastor-argues\/","title":{"rendered":"Most men maltreat their wives because of the expensive bride price they paid \u2013 Pastor argues \u00bb \u2122"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_33\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Bride price is the most common practice used to validate customary marriages in Africa including Ghana.<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The practice of bride price is central to marriage rites and is deeply embedded as a valued cultural norm in Ghana as it legitimizes marriages.<\/p>\n<p>Bride price in Ghana is typically a contract where material items such as cattle or other animals, cowries and\/ or money are paid by a prospective husband\u2019s family to the bride\u2019s family in exchange for the bride.<\/p>\n<p>And as a result of the higher bride prices in contemporary times, \u201cmost men are refusing to marry their girlfriends\u201d, Rev. Isaac Frimpong has observed in footage spotted by Ghbase.Com.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p>According to the man of God in the video, it\u2019s high time the family of the lady considered reducing the quantum of items so that young men can easily afford to marry the ladies they are cohabiting with.<\/p>\n<p>He argues that most women in marriages don\u2019t have a say because of the expensive nature of the bride price their husbands were made to pay, therefore, they see the women as slaves and maids in the marriage.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p><strong>VIDEO BELOW:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><noscript><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"vYaT3NHnlQM\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Parents should reduce bride price of their daughters - Rev. Isaac Frimpong\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vYaT3NHnlQM?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; &#8211; Bride price is the most common practice used to validate customary marriages in Africa including Ghana. The practice of bride price is central to marriage rites and is deeply embedded as a valued cultural norm in Ghana as it legitimizes marriages. Bride price in Ghana is typically a contract where material items such [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1163061,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[5095,8503,1855,21894,698,199,750,169,7676],"class_list":["post-1163059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-argues","tag-bride","tag-expensive","tag-maltreat","tag-men","tag-paid","tag-pastor","tag-price","tag-wives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1163059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1163059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1163059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1163059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}