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Breaking free of arranged marriages
Arranged marriages are not common in the US where women and men have many opportunities to meet one another in co-educational schools, workplaces, and social settings. This creates, from the point of view of highly traditional families, a ‘problem’ in that when allowed to mix freely in cosmopolitan settings, people might well fall in love with those who do not share their own ethnic or racial or religious backgrounds.
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Is Arranged Marriage Really Any Worse Than Craigslist?
Many women, Indian or not, whose parents have had a long, healthy marriage hope we will, too, while fearing that perhaps we’ve made everything irreparably worse by expecting too much. Our prospective husbands have to be rich and socially conscious, hip but down-to-earth. -
Muslim weddings
This article looks at Muslim weddings and includes information on the ceremony, the law, arranged marriages and polygyny. -
The Joy Of Leaving An Arranged Marriage — And The Cost
Where I grew up in the Ultra-Orthodox Jewish community [arranged marriage] is just how marriage worked, and it was something I very much wanted to do.
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This article misses the complexity and other factors of arranged marriages in another part of the world(where it happens far more than the US,though). And that's something not even atheism can break to,or change outlooks upon.