article_snippet.sent: Women and girls are not property, Women and girls are human beings who have every right to be free from violence and to live according to how Women and girls choose for Women and girls. '
article_snippet.sent: In traditional Hmong marriages the man generally asks permission from the girl's family to wed the girl.
article_snippet.sent: If that method fails, there is a tradition of 'bride-napping' in Hmong culture in which the man may literally drag the man bride to the man house when his bride parents are not home.
article_snippet.sent: If the girl does not accept a gift from the girl sometimes forceful suitor then the girl may go back to the girl family, says Ahmongwoman.com .
highlights_snippet.sent: In Hmong culture, bride-napping is a frowned-upon tradition in which a male suitor kidnaps his bride if his bride family does not approve of the marriage .
  