Arranged Marriages Research Paper

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Mollie McCaffrey IST 05-01
Satya Parayitam December 7, 2015
Indian Marriage System
The continent of India has been known for its variety in weddings and marriage ideas.
Most marriages are arranged by the father and in some other cases the mothers who chooses who her son or daughter can marry. This has dated back for centuries, where a king will choose who his daughter will marry so the kingdom and the power will stay in their family. Arranged marriages in India lack legal recognition or support from the outside including its own government. Even though the government doesn't have a say on arranged marriages, they support them because it sets boundaries on social classes, and makes people realize what they can do for the nation and country that they live in.
The idea of an arranged marriage had dated back before Christ, where the kings and queens of the land would set the limits in social classes, deciding who should marry who, and what would happen after they get married, meaning what their roll is in the society.
Most of the arranged wedding systems were related to the religion that they practiced during the time. For an example Swayamvara, was an …show more content…

The average divorce rate on arranged marriages is 4.2%. The average age difference from the male to the female is 4-5 years. This is important to note because this means that the female in the reaction ship is a lot younger than the male, but it is the males job to be able to support the family. The percentage of girls who are married under the age of 18 is 47% which is a unusual stat because that means almost one out of two girls are married before they are 18. Another stat which was very interesting to me was that 55% of marriages that happen today are arranged, so again almost one out of two marriages are arranged. The number of marriages that are arranged in India is 90%. This is a crazy stat because that means that almost all marriages in india are

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