Forced marriage is a term used to describe a Wedding and then marriage in which one or more of the parties is married without his or her consent or against his or her will. A forced marriage differs from an arranged marriage where both parties consent to the assistance of their parents or a third party in identifying a spouse, although the difference between the two may be indistinct. The practice of forced marriage was very common amongst the upper classes in Europe until the 1900s, this is still practiced in South Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. Forced marriages now in Western Europe and North America are generally committed within these migrant communities. In most but not all forced marriages, it is the female (rather than the male) who is the involuntary spouse.