


What you are really saying is that Islamic societies are patriarchal and that Muslims have arranged marriages. They gain prestige and authority through their role. You already know what the goal of the relationship is when you first start dating. Finally, most marriage organisers are actually women, as in the ‘Auntie’ system in India. List of the Advantages of Arranged Marriage 1. The vulnerability of those without language skills is an accepted fact of immigration policy, again it applies to all immigration and not to arranged marriages. Jeff Greenspan and Andrew Tider created Hindur (Tinder for Hindu-inspired arranged marriages) to help alleviate the dating pressures singles feel while navigating all the dating and hookup apps out. This is a criticism of marriage per se, and not arrangement, and we can’t ban marriage. The institution of marriage always creates interdependence and therefore scope for abuse and danger and the police and outsiders always find it more difficult to intervene where violence is within a marriage.

Arranged marriage is bad both for the individual women concerned and for women generally in society….Īrranged marriages in Europe and North America have idiosyncratically low levels of abuse and marital violence. This is exactly why the distinction between arranged and forced marriages is so important in providing protection for those who really need it without authoritarianism creeping in. Most importantly, it is totally illogical for the government to intervene to stop people having the marriages that they and their family have chosen in the name of freedom of choice. Many of what we would call arranged marriages are actually either parents just introducing their children to potential partners, or effecting the negotiations necessary for marriage after their children have already chosen a partner. This is particularly fitting in a social system which places high value on the way in which the extended family work together, and ensures that there is family support and shared expectations which contribute to the longevity of the marriage. The difference is merely that whole families are involved together in both considering the best options and in helping to achieve what is wanted.
