Initiation rites dramatize and effect the incorporation of the young into the full life of their nation. Only after initiation...is a person socially born into full manhood or womanhood with all its secrets, responsibilities, privileges and expectations. Initiation rites almost always include the symbolism of the death of the child and the rebirth of the novice as an adult.
In Initiation the transition is from the relatively ignorant and irresponsible state of childhood to the state of responsible adulthood, which *includes a readying for marriage, and only when it is over may young people get married.
Initiation rites firmly separate the boy from maternal figures, sever his identity with the mother and place him psychologically and socially within the father's group. A male is, in these conditions, twice born, once into the world of the mother and female society, then at puberty he symbolically dies and is reborn into manhood and the world of men.