Dictionary Definition Arranged Marriages A marriage planned and agreed by the families or guardians of the couple concerned.
Views Arranged Marriages don’t always have to be a bad thing. Sometimes they are a family tradition. Other times the girls want to take the pressure and stress off them and they ask the parents to arrange a man to marry them. The worst thing to thing to think of, is having to wake up every morning and see a stranger you don’t know. Thats what happens to these girls. They get forced by their own parents to marry a stranger. If they don’t say yes they have consequences they have to face.
Information -Girls as young as 12 or 13 are packed off to live in another country and marry a man they have never met. -The National Children's and Youth Law Centre has seen over 250 arranged marriage cases over these 24 months. - In a few weeks they get married to their fiancé. - In India it would possibly be an arranged marriage then a love marriage (that's choosing your own person to marry). - Very little people get divorced in arranged marriages. - In an arranged marriage it can't be any random person. - Your parents or grandparents (or the people who chose the man you marry) have to know someone in the man's family.