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Most Local communities in Uganda face the complex processes of change resulting from social, economic and cultural changes in society. Those changes are the challenges facing society that cannot beresisted or deterred. The marriage process and/or institution is one such area where these challenges are manifest. Traditionally, the marriage between Bakiga aimed at preserving family cultural values that reinforced the cohesion of the social structure of society. These values include value of work, family stability, prevention of incest, expansion of the circle of kinship ties, biological and numerical reproduction, and mutual respect in and between families. The Bakiga traditional marriage process was characterized by twelve consecutive stages, which ultimately aimed at forming a sub-sys¬tem of a nuclear family within the broader context of the extended family system. However, this process underwent a major change that reduced these stages from twelve to approximately five. This study discusses the nature of the changes that occurred in the marriage process in the Bakiga, the extent of its impact on the prevailing values in society, and the most important factors responsible for the occurrence of those changes. The study monitored a number of results, the most important of which is that the marriage process for the Bakiga witnessed many changes affected all marriage ceremonies of that tribe. The main factors responsible for most of the changes were economic, such as wage employment, high poverty rates, the education system and its Link to access to work and its impact on family performance, urbanization, mixed marriage, and religious and ideological differences.
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