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How to care for your baby's skin the right way. The perfect beauty product for oily skin. See all results matching 'mub'. A more moderate and flexible procedure known as a modern arranged marriage is gaining in popularity. Parents choose several possible candidates or employ Matrimonials Sites.
The parents will then arrange a meeting with the family of the prospective mate, confining their role to responsible facilitators and well-wishers. Less pressure to agree to the match is exerted by the parents in comparison to a traditional arranged marriage.
In some cases, a prospective partner may be selected by the son or daughter instead of by the parents or by a matchmaker. In such cases, the parents will either disapprove of the match and forbid the marriage or, just as likely, approve the match and agree to proceed with the marriage. Such cases are distinct from a love marriage because courtship is curtailed or absent and the parents retain the prerogative to forbid the match.
A love marriage involves a couple who find each other without parental approval and choose to get married. In some cases, the parents end up approving the marriage and in other cases, they continue to remain opposed to the marriage.
There is a considerable debate on the pros and cons of love marriages vs arranged marriages. No scientific data is available to prove or disprove the benefits of either of the approaches.
In cultures with few possibilities to meet prospective partners, arranged marriages perform a similar function, bringing together people who might otherwise not have met.
In such cultures, arranged marriage is viewed as the norm and preferred by young adults. Even where courtship practices are becoming fashionable, young adults tend to view arranged marriage as an option they can fall back on if they are unable or unwilling to spend the time and effort necessary to find a spouse on their own. In such cases, the parents become welcome partners in a hunt for marital bliss. Further, in several cultures, the last duty of a parent to his or her son or daughter is to see that they pass through the marital rites.
In some cultures, arranged marriage is a tradition handed down through many generations. Many parents, and children likewise, feel pressure from the community to conform, and in certain cultures, a love marriage or even courtship is considered a failure on the part of the parents to maintain control over their child.
In such cultures, children are brought up with these cultural assumptions do not feel stifled. When he came back I knew I had to be with him. Arranged marriages have changed drastically over the last couple of decades, says Dr. Saunia Ahmad, director and clinical psychologist at the Toronto Psychology Clinic. In the past, and this can still happen today , marriages were agreed upon by two families when their respective children were still young.
Sometimes they would get engaged just a day after meeting for the first time; sometimes they met for the first time on their wedding day. Today, although some are introduced to entire families at the same time as their potential partners, they have the freedom to chat or go on informal dates for as long as they want before deciding to tie the knot.
Ahmad, who works with couples in arranged marriages and has researched the topic, says that while the idea of the union coming together sounds definite, there is still a lot of personal choice in the final decision, especially when you look at modern-day arrangements.
The children have a lot more input. This could mean having your parents or other close family members act as matchmakers. The internet, technology and online dating have also changed the process, Ahmad says. Families send photos of potential partners to their children via text message, email or on some dating sites like Shaddi. Parents can even set up a dating profile for a child. Loveleen says she decided to try an arranged marriage after her father passed away.
She was 18 years old and told her mother she was thinking about getting out of the country. She talked to a family friend, who told her about a young man named Dave who was going to visit from Canada. She agreed to send him a photo of herself before they met. She was willing to try. Dave, 58, decided on an arranged marriage months before seeing his bride-to-be. During that time, he says family members would chime in and offer suggestions on potential spouses. But when he met Loveleen, the search was over.
After their meeting in April , they took a trip to London and their attraction grew. Two weeks later, they legally got married in Nottingham, U. Samad Farooqui and Sadia Qavi are much younger than the Gills, but the two decided a modern-day arranged marriage was the best way to find a spouse. How they make a mixed-orientation marriage work. Qavi says before meeting her husband she wanted to focus on school and a career.
Sadia Qavi and Samad Farooqui. Photo provided by Sadia Qavi. After first meeting in November , the couple decided to get married in June After all, they both had successful examples of arranged marriages in their respective families to draw from. Ahmad says that for many, being in a relationship means finding someone who is committed and interested in something long-term.
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