Arranged Marriage Research Paper

I strongly disagree with the whole concept of arranged marriages. I believe all men and women should have the freedom to choose whom they marry, and it should not be left up to anyone but themselves. Whether it is relatives making previous plans, people getting in trouble with the law, or another reason that might be against a person’s own will, I see that as terribly wrong and against anything I’ve ever been taught. I think the emotional toll it can take on women is completely unfair, as they don’t have a choice and, as said by a young woman in the Junior Scholastic article Marriage-or Else, 2011 “Every time they could, they found an excuse to beat me.” That statement shows me that violence can be evident in arranged marriage, which is a

Junior Scholastic’s article Marriage-or Else, 2011 claims that “Child marriage is not limited to Afghanistan…Child brides also suffer psychologically after being taken from their families, friends, and school, and forced to serve their much older husbands.” First off, the fact that much older men find it alright to marry much younger children is just sick to me. In my opinion, they should be put in jail just for being perverted. Second, it shouldn’t be up to these men to have these children scarred for life. If they’re suffering psychologically afterwards and they can’t even control their own lives and their own situations, it shouldn’t be allowed to happen. Altogether, the idea of arranged marriages is simply wrong to me. The only problem is that so many people don’t know how often this happens over in other countries, so our world isn’t stopping the problem to the best of its abilities. The thought of these girls suffering is painful for me to think about, and I hope one day this problem will be resolved for

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