Arranged/Forced Marriage

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

Wikipedia article on arranged marriage: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arranged_marriage
Wikipedia article on forced marriage: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_marriage

What are your thoughts on this?

Should people in these situations respect tradition or marry who they want (even if it means being shunned or disowned)?

Why / why not?

 

[Bryd0]

It's bad. Deluded parents that kill their daughter if she opts out on this kind of "marriage" is even worse.

I believe that a person should have a right to marry anyone they desire and not have their parents or someone else find some random person for him/her to wed that he/she doesn't even know.

 

[Flurry]

Should always have the option of choosing who you want to marry. This isn't the Dark Ages anymore people.

 

[DrLeftover]

Should always have the option of choosing who you want to marry. This isn't the Dark Ages anymore people.

Oh?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/07/24/child-marriages-video-of-pleading-yemeni-girl-is-just-the-tip-of-the-iceberg/

 

[DrLeftover]

And then you have this from last year:

Feb 15, 2012
(Newser) – A love affair between two teens in Bangladesh ended in tragedy after the 16-year-old girl's family married her off to a man twice her age. The girl and her 17-year-old boyfriend tied their hands together with a scarf and jumped to their deaths from a mobile phone tower, the Daily Mail reports. Police say the boy called his brother and told him they were committing suicide on Valentine's Day so they could stay together forever.

http://www.newser.com/story/139723/teen-couple-leap-to-deaths-after-her-forced-marriage.html

 

[DrLeftover]

That is what you can expect when half the population have no innate rights and are effectively considered property.

Get used to it.