Arranged marriages
Posted by Anju, Wed Oct 15 22:24:00 UTC 2008
I haven’t come across such a good article on arranged marriages for a long time, hence why I’m sharing this with our readers.
“It matters to think about the qualities of that person – and indeed to know yourself. There is an aspect to arranged marriage that is about thinking ahead, about what relationships are for, about consequences, and we’re beginning to get a shift towards people thinking like that.” Article
Very good article indeed, and it provides some strong counterpoint to the common ridiculing of arranged marriages in the west. It is still difficult to comprehend for the western libertarian mind that arranged marriages can work, but a divorce rate of 30-40 % is not really sweet evidence of the long term success for our heralded notion of romance either …