Bride Price: Modern Day Female Enslavement?

In the western world, you often imagine that a small girl wearing a beautiful white dress walking through the aisle, her father is ready to hand over her to a dream man. However, in sub-Saharan African societies such as Ghana and Uganda, girls someday girls and men and his family came to her father's house and proposed a new marriage price to carry out traditional marriage rights I dream to do. It is a problem with the price of Gita Sen's bride as it is defined as the amount the future husband pays for the family of women he wishes to get married.

When about one third of girls in developing countries are likely to marry a child's bride, when about 140 million girls and women suffer from female genitomy, millions of women and girls Is sold as a contemporary slave. When rape is used as a war strategy - now is the time to take action. The authors of the study concluded that domestic violence is becoming increasingly unacceptable due to global attitudinal changes. However, despite the increase in refusal, in nearly half of the countries, 12 out of 26 people (more than half of the women surveyed) still considers domestic violence as valid. Therefore, even if the attitude changes, there is still a long way to realize the change in the attitude necessary to eliminate violence against women and children.

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In recent years, dowry and bride's price practices have been used to stimulate conflict between families and tribes, contribute to violence against women, promote materialism, increase property crime (to pay cows and other things to pay bride's price Stealing men) make it difficult for the poor to get married. Women's rights activists in Africa claim to abolish the price of the bride. I believe this is based on the view that women are a form of purchasable property. Since poor parents sell young girls to wealthy older men, the price of the bride has also been criticized for selling children. A senior police officer in Papua New Guinea called for the abolition of the bride's price as one of the main reasons for the abuse of women in the country. The opposition to dowry relates to crimes such as high violence (see death of dowry) and extortion.

In the present age, the concept of dowry has changed and Indian families no longer practice the concept of traditional Veda dowry dowry. This is because the price of the bride gradually disappears over time, and the dowry becomes a form of general transfer. In modern times, the custom of dowry calls on bride's family to consider marriage to transfer goods to groom's family. They are often very luxurious, as marriage in India is time for each family to make a big celebration. Therefore, the Indian wedding usually involves considerable expenditure and wedding celebration from relatives on both sides of the family. This is normal expenditure, which is arbitrary, depending on wealth, status and so on.