Arranged marriage 1
Do you want get married with the one you love or do you want to find someone who has many commons in a various elements with you? Do you want to have a wonderful marriage? Or how can people avoid their marriage from divorce? Young people nowadays can have a chance and freedom to get married by two main ways: love marriage and arranged marriage. A lot of people in Western countries think that arranged marriage avoid people having the chance to explore their own personalities , getting the freedom to get marriage with the one they love or expressing themselves creatively through dating. They assume that an arranged marriage will fail when the potential spouse is an awful match, the mate that was arranged might not achieve our satisfaction and the marriage will end up with divorce and disappointment. In fact, it is showed that an arranged marriage is a deeper and healthier relationship because it is based on a lot of basic and reasonable factors that are totally necessary for setting up a marriage and having a long-life partner.
Actually, there are two concepts that many people now misunderstand; it is “forced marriage” and “arranged marriage”. In fact, forced marriage is very distinct from arranged one. In forced marriage, one or both spouses do not consent to the marriage and duress is involved. “Duress can include physical, psychological, financial, sexual and emotional pressure.” [The Right to Choose: Multi- agency statutory guidance for dealing with forced marriage (2008)]. Especially, The Government’s guidelines define forced marriage in the following terms: ‘Forced marriage is a form of child/domestic abuse and violence against women’. [Multi-agency practice guidelines: Handling Cases of Forced Marriage (2009)].
What about arranged marriage? According to Gagoomal (2009), “Arranged marriage is broadly defined as unions in which people other than the bride and groom, typically
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