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The Beginning
Dating back to the 1600’s, the first American settlers became bored of the usual bar maids and ladies of the night for companionship. With loving and loyal women scarce in their pioneer population, they began writing letters to women back in Europe. After some correspondence, the men would arrange for the women to travel to America, they would marry, and begin their new life together. Another practice around the same time period was that mail order brides were shipped from London to America as payment for items such as tobacco. Men could take their pick from the shipment and a marriage would soon follow.
The Resurgence
Mail order brides became widely popular across the globe in the 1980’s with men seeking mostly Asian women from countries such as the Philippines and Thailand. Then with the fall of the Soviet Union, Russian and Ukrainian women joined the pool of available bachelorettes. Their beauty and intelligence made Russian mail order brides an instant favorite. This match making system was originally a printed catalog where men could peruse the pages, read the profiles, and select a wife. Then in the 1990’s, the Internet replaced the archaic catalog method. This sped up, as well as transformed, the mail order bride industry.
The Modern Mail Order Bride
Long gone are the days where men simply pick and purchase a foreign wife. The label of “mail order bride” still lingers, however the process today is an online match making system where marriage is decided upon by both the gentleman and the lady. The gentlemen are typically open-minded, intelligent bachelors that find women from different cultures more intriguing than “the girl next door”. The ladies are outnumbered by the men in their countries and seek companionship, stability, and new opportunities with their ideal husband.
Mail order bride and online match making services result in 4,000 to 6,000 marriages per year, as reported by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, adding that these marriages appear to have a lower divorce rate than the nation as a whole. As long as people are finding partners and building happy lives together, who cares what the process is called?
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