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Dower. It's called dower, not "bride prices". You know NYT wants to spin a narrative when the title is deliberately more dystopian than reality.

Is dowry better?

Its basically the same though. No house no car no marriage.....

"Bride price", especially with the quotes sounds like mail ordered brides when the reality is that it's a tradition to pay the bride's family to take their daughter into marriage. Major optics difference.

A fair enough. I see your point now.

I know at least in Kenya it is still informally called a bride price and I wouldn't be surprised if it's the same in many other traditional cultures

Tbh they also abduct women from Cambodia and Laos to wed them, so bride prices ain't wrong

We just have to hold off WW3 until their population falls

It's already happening. https://www.china-briefing.com/news/chinas-demographic-shift-how-population-decline-will-impact-doing-business-in-the-country/#:~:text=China%27s%20population%20has%20declined%20for,Bureau%20of%20Statistics%20(NBS).

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Most people aren’t familiar with the word “dower” though.

I would have preferred a groupon.

This is why they want to invade Taiwan, get some war bribe action going on.

Isn't dowry essentially "bride price"? It's a price you pay for a bride?

The issue is that dowry is so rare in western countries people likely don't know what it is anymore.

It's "dowry"

Yes, but read the title headline without context. Marriage rate down, bride prices up. Without any context that sounds like human trafficking/slavery and the selling of women, which is a farcry from reality.

So they are being deliberately being misleading to incite more chinese hatred.

No, a dowry is brought from bride to husband.

Not everyone wants to share their wife with a group

Oh, ok.

I mean if you put "dower" there it gets even more ambiguous and arguably "nefarious", because it appears you're hiding what you're doing behind an arbitrary term.

Most people don't know what dower is. "Bride price" is an accurate enough description, it's a payment for a bride, and you can at least get that concept across first before talking about the historical background.

Also it turns out that's the right term.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bride_price

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dower

"Dower" is specifically a Muslim tradition if it involves groom paying bride.

Except both are correct term though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bride_price

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dower

And without the quote it gets even more ambiguous

Bride price is up

vs

"Bride price" is up.

And dower has a different meaning for Western world, which is functionally an optional contract that's essentially a divorce settlement.

Dowry is bride family payment to groom.

This is the reverse, which is called "dower", "bride dowry" or "bride price".

Inflation really impacting the price of everything nowadays /s

Just like chicken.

My best and final, 5 cows and 10 blankets

It's as though decades of selecting male offspring somehow resulted in females being able to be highly selective about who they marry. Can't imagine who could have predicted that.

Sexual relationships and marriage in Korea and Japan are also collapsing. You'd think that more conservative countries would have more children, but that's apparently only the case in religious settings that foster a cult like authoritarian mode of control.

Why is it called "Bride Prices" in English? The original word means Garnish Gifts.

I still think the traditional term is “dowry” (not “dower” which was probably a typo) though. It’s a commonly understood term.

Dowry is payment from the bride family to the groom.

Dower is the reverse one.