Bahamas+-+Daily+Life

= = Bahamas-Daily Life


 * **Family is very important to most Bahamians**
 * **Women use to be stay- at -home mothers, but today most are single women that also work**
 * ** Marriages in the Bahamas start as low as 13 years of age with special permission from the courts and 15 years of age with a parents consent **
 * ** The Bahamian people set up stands next to harbors to sell fruits, vegetables, and other needs **
 * ** The food they mostly eat is from the sea, they eat crabs, crawfish, conch, and fish such as Grouper, Yellow Tail, and Red Snapper **
 * ** Funerals are a very important event in the Bahamas and radio stations are interrupted and newspapers dedicate a huge percent of space to funerals **
 * ** The tradition of the music is played on goatskin drums as people dance and loose themselves in the haunting melodies **