Do Arranged Marriages Work?

First comes marriage then comes love, marriage is legal act bringing a woman and a man closer to each other, colliding their whole lives to be one. Marriage is the key into forming a larger family unit in the social system, it also is what binds both emotional and sexual attractions where both spouse are sharing their whole life together creating a family. Nowadays there is a noticeable prevalence of trends concerning marriage in certain communities, two of the most used trends are love marriages and arranged marriages. Moreover, some people are fortunate enough to find their soul mates on their own while others aren’t as lucky, instead they have to get their soul mates selected for them. However, one major trend is the idea of arranged marriage, which has found it’s way into some cultures and had developed an acceptable ideology in those cultures. The suitability or even the appropriateness of such arranged marriages have been a bone of contempt between its critics and advocates. While many people argue that it is for greater benefit of the parties involved, critics may easily find several abnormalities with such ideology on the basis that it is not the best recipe for a successful marriage. Arising many questions concerning this topic several researches and studies have been done to find the exact statistics of negative vs. positive effects for such marriages and trying to answer the question, whether arranged marriage or love marriage tending to be the best option?

Do all arranged marriages really work?

Worldwide, the most common way or mating is done by arrangements, usually by the aid of parent’s relatives or matchmakers who are close to the family. Some families use this method in marriages just due to their historical...

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...r in the same house even on the same bed without communicating with each other, they take their marriage life for several purposes such as sexual craves, the need of money or shelter and the essentials of having kids and building a family, so as long as those purposes are meet there is no need for communication. Others are just namely married; one may live in a completely different country with no means of communications or responsibilities. The only reason why these people do not become a representative sample of the population during a survey on divorce, is that legally they are not divorced by a court of law. Moreover those people agree to live in such horrible uncivilized scenarios, just for the welfare of society and how they judge them or simply for financial and legal hassles, but are this fair? Doesn’t unhappiness and dissatisfaction equate a divorce?