Marriage

Marriage is the final initiation into the Balinese community, most Balinese consider it as an important social obligation to raise a family and carry on the family name, and only a stable married man or household head may become a member of a "banjar", community. A person who never marries is looked upon an oddity, if a man dies a bachelor the Balinese say that in the next life he will feed pigs, a woman's task. If a woman dies childless, she is doomed to be suckled by a giant caterpillar.