"Knobstick wedding" nghĩa là gì?

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"Knobstick wedding" -> nghĩa là đám cưới tổ chức vội vã vì cô dâu có bầu; bác sĩ bảo cưới.

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However, this is a translation is mostly North American. The United Kingdom seems to refer to it as a knobstick wedding. This refers to the staves (quyền trượng) that the church wardens (người gác) carried, who attended the wedding to make sure that the wedding ceremony took place.

If you want to tie the knot at a knobstick wedding, what do you need? A knobstick is a type of wooden club. Now, if a woman was unmarried and had a baby that baby was said to be on the parish. And the parish paid for workhouses and the parish had to pay for the babies, and they didn't like that.

One form of forced marriage which was common in 18th century UK was known as a “knobstick wedding.” Since illegitimate (chửa hoang) kids were the Church’s responsibility, they were invested in wedding unmarried pregnant women to the fathers of their children. 

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