Despite the above noted “advantages,” the practice of minor marriage ended by the 1960s. As increasing numbers of men and women refused to marry their foster siblings, parents came to the conclusion that it was disadvantageous to raise a sim-pua, only to have this arrangement rejected when children were of marriageable age (A. Wolf, 1968). In succeeding decades nearly all marriages were of the “major type.” Yet the 1990s witnessed the rapid increase in a new type of marriage.