What sort of men choose to marry mail-order brides?
Markee (2001) found that According to the marriage connection, marriage agencies generally do not screen their male clients, some of whom have histories of domestic abuse or criminal records. Many male clients of marriage agencies are considered socially or physically unattractive in their own culture, hold chauvinistic attitudes, and have histories of abuse. The men are educated, politically and ideologically conservative, religious, economically and professionally successful, and almost always Caucasian. They have a distaste for American women, mainly due to the womens movement. Over half were married at least once, most were divorced, and their median age is 27 since in the 1990s young men increasingly turned to mail order bride services rather than bothering with American women, although there is often an age difference of 20-50 years. According to Loxterman (1999), they were looking for wives who do not harbor the apparently rampant materialism of American women yet isnt that a we
