Health Topics. Health Tools. Emotional Health. By Liz Pitts. Reviewed: November 15, For most people raised in Western cultures, the idea of arranged marriages may sound strange, even archaic and misogynistic. Indeed, almost all devout Hindus and some orthodox Jews still practice the custom of arranged marriage. Although the specific practices surrounding arranged marriages differ from group to group, the institution of arranged marriage tends to function in similar ways across cultures.
Like any time-tested tradition, the practice of arranging matrimony holds up in many societies because it stabilizes and connects families, preserves social and economic order and reinforces religious values. Unfortunately, we are not experts on arranged marriage. If you email us at gpsemory gmail. I am a high school student and I was wondering what credibility the author has for this source because I would like to use it in a paper I am writing.
If you could help me that would be amazing and it would really help me. The post serves as an overview of Arranged Marriage in India. Good Luck on your paper! Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Arranged Marriages in India Arranged Marriage: Stories, Arranged marriages have been part of the Indian culture since the fourth century.
Muslim Arranged Marriages in India In the Muslim faith, it is the responsibility of the parents to provide for the education and the marriage of their children. Arranged Marriage Matchmaker in India The traditional arranged marriage matchmaker is called a nayan Prakasa Select Bibliography Harlan, Lindsey, ed.
New York: Oxford University Press, Kannan, Chirayil. Intercaste and inter-community marriages in India. Bombay: Allied Publishers, Manning, Henry Edward. Indian Child Marriages. London: New Review, Uberoi, Patricia, ed. Family, Kinship, and Marriage in India.
New York: Oxford University Press, Works Cited Ahmad, Imtiaz, ed. Manohar: Jawaharlal Nehru University Press, Diwan, Paras. Goswami, B, J. Sarkar, and D. Danda, eds. Calcutta: Shri Sovan Lal Kumar, Gupta, Giri Raj, ed.
Family and Social Change in Modern India. This includes child marriages, some of which are done by families selling their children off to the highest bidder. On average, arranged marriages around the world have a divorce rate of a mere 6. These girls are usually married to have husbands, on average, 4.
With the help and consultation of a professional matchmaker, an arranged marriage has the potential to be successful. Poverty is one of the main causes of forced marriage. For some poor families, the marriage of a daughter to a man who is better off is both a way of giving her access to a higher standard of living than they can offer and a way of securing a nest egg in return for a dowry.
Some young women who have sought and received assistance from workers in shelters for victims of violence were still underage when their parents married them off to men much older and richer than themselves. These were girls from countries in Latin America or the West Indies whose parents, because of their extreme poverty, "sold" them, in return for cash, to French-speaking Quebecois men.
I have in fact taken in several women who were forced into marriage. There were two cases that really struck me. The first was a girl from a country in the West Indies. She was 13 years old at the time and was forced to marry a year-old man. He was a Canadian francophone Quebecer who went on vacation to a country in the West Indies. He met the girl. He asked a friend from Quebec who was there whether he knew her and so on, and ultimately the man went to see the girl's parents.
He offered them money. So that was forced, in my opinion, in the sense that the family, which was very poor, was in economic need. There was one condition in the marriage contract, which was that the family asked the man not to touch the girl sexually before she was 15, which he did not abide by. We believe that steps were undertaken for her immigration and the husband sponsored her, brought her here and once that young girl was here she was subject to violence - sexual violence and physical violence.
Respondent B. This respondent continued with a second case that disturbed her, similar to the preceding case, of another young girl from another country in the West Indies from a poor social and economic background, who was given in marriage by her family to a man from the North. The man travelled to a country in the West Indies , he was a man who was well off financially, he was retired from the university, he had a good pension. He met the young girl when she was 15 years old and her mother accepted this marriage Cases of families who force their young girls into an undesired marriage to repair the "mistake" of pregnancy out of wedlock and thereby avoid losing face are also mentioned.
Several women who fled to battered women's shelters hoping to find protection from conjugal violence told social workers that they had been forced by their parents to marry the father of the child conceived out of wedlock.
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