Bridewealth:
a. is the price a man pays for a wife in a commercial exchange.
b. increases the likelihood of a marriage ending in divorce.
c. tends to create bad relations between the families of the bride and groom.
d. legitimizes marriages and transfers rights over children to the father's family.
e. creates a network of strong alliances between the kinsmen of the bride's family.
d
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