Banning Arranged Marriages

Arranged marriages have been around for a while and they still are. In some countries arranged marriages are actually tradition but it is wrong to arrange a marriage for necessity instead of love. Did you know that arranged marriages can be annulled? You can legally annul your arranged marriage with a legal court session. With arranged marriages, you hurt your children more than help them. By marrying them at a young age, they don’t get much education. Arranged Marriages are cruel because people deserve the choice of who they marry and a chance of love.

Traditional arranged marriages were arranged by the parents. They arranged the child’s future spouse with little or no input from the child being taken as having final authority (“Arranged marriage”). If the child refuses the choice of their parents, the parents may choose another possible spouse or the child may be punished or disowned (or in rare cases, killed accidentally in the heat of passion or intentionally with legal authority to do so). In traditional arranged marriages, the child had no real input in the wedding. They have no say in who they will marry.

Modern arranged marriages are arranged by the child’s parents. They choose several possible mates for their child, sometimes with the help of the child (who may indicate which photos, biographic he or she likes). The parents then arrange a

meeting with the family of the mate and they will often have short unsupervised meeting (an hour long walk around the neighborhood together for example) (Arrange Marriages). The child will then choose who they wish to marry (if anyone) although parents may exert varying degrees of pressure on the child to make a certain choice of who they must approve. Modern arranged marriages with courtship are the same as modern arranged marriages without courtship. Except the children have a chance to know each other longer (“arranges marriage”).

The introduction to your future spouse will be led by your parents. Your parents will introduce their child to a potential spouse (what they found was a personal recommendation, or a website) (“Arranged Marriages”). The parents may briefly talk to the parents of the prospective spouse (“Arranged Marriages”). From that point on it is up to the children to manage the relationship and make a choice based on whatever factors they want love or otherwise. Sometimes, the parents may briefly influence the child’s choice or generally pressure the child to choose someone (especially when the parents are hoping to become grandparents). Sometimes the terms “arranged marriage” may be occasionally used even if the parents had no direct involvement with the spouse.

Some religions involved with arranged marriages are Muslim and Hindu. It may happen in other religions but these two are the main religions. Muslim and Hindu people believe that arranged marriages have fewer divorces than the so called “love marriages”. So that’s why they believe in arranged marriages so much. Muslim and Hindu people believe that you should get married by an arranged marriage than a “love marriages”. With these religions they believe that girls should get married at a young age because if

not, they have a chance to be with other men so then political husbands do not want them (“Forced marriage annulled by judge”). A GIRL forced at 16 to marry a Pakistani youth arrived in Britain and won a court contest to have her marriage annulled (“Forced marriage annulled by judge”). The family chooses whom the girl will marry by their social status. Sometimes the girls are married because the family needs money from there daughter, bride price. They could also marry to settle land disputes or to keep it in the family. They often marry there cousins for this reason, the girls may not like whom there parents have picked for her to marry so she may commit suicide to get out of the marriage. When the bride marries, she has no choice but to be a semi-servant for the family because she is now considered there property of her in-laws.

An arranged marriage is a marriage arranged by both families. The bride and groom have no say in it at all. Parents who take their sons or daughters marriage into there own hands have almost always had this happen to them. So arranged marriages are arranged by your parents with none of your opinion. “Having your marriage arranged because of need not love is wrong” (Arranged Marriages”). The bride has no choice at all who