A glance at marriage and family news, customs and trends around the globe.
GERMANY: A Swedish man who left home to escape marital conflict is in trouble. After some time away, he came into a police station with a fabricated kidnapping story in hopes that an alibi would convince his wife. Don’t know if his wife bought it, but police didn’t and put him in jail for faking a crime.
PAKISTAN: Unscrupulous matchmaking agencies are promising men mates “as beautiful as a princess in a fairy tale.” Turns out the promise IS a fairy tale.