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Posted: 16 years ago
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Hiya
I don't get why has most cultures dowries come from the woman's side. Shouldn't it be the opposite (assuming that the man is supposed to provide and protect his woman). I think men should give the dowry. It shows how well they can provide 😃
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Earlier in Ancient time Dowry was given to Girls when she was marring and moving into to his hubby house at that time, girls family were used to give wealth (i.e. dowry) to their daughter as she will be in new place in new environment so she must not be financially week because at that time after marriage girl were not used to get right in property of their father family but she used to get right in property of his husband.

Now In present scenario in India law has change Girl does have right in property of his father as well as his husband.

So people those who were not able to understand this love of parent towards their daughter in ancient India, Believes it is a custom to get dowry and to give dowry.

In India it is Illegal to take Dowry.

"Taking dowry is against the law, but in the interest of getting the girl married, in most of the cases this is never publicized."

I will also say ....rich girls father tries to buy husband for their daughter, they all want their daughter to be more secure financially so they always tell boys parent that we will give you good dowry if you accept the alliance of our daughter with your boy.

Here boy may be very qualified like technocrat, Doctor, lecturer, Lawyer, Journalist, Administrative officer etc.

I have friend his name is Pushkar Prabhat Saxena I know him from my childhood he said that he don't need dowry during process of his alliance, girls family said there is some problem in boy why they are not asking for dowry, otherwise he is software engineer highly paid having good money financially strong, good guy mature sensible but still his first alliance was broken like this. But right now he is married and living happily.

So as per experience of Pushkar he said If some one gives you dowry you take it don't say anything, and if they don't give its their wish. You just don't say you need or you don't need.

So it's not only boy's fault or boys family, females parent are also involved in that.

Frankly speaking I am boy I know my parent will not ask for dowry because I know them & they taught me Dowry is bad evil in society. And In case if any family member say which is not possible in my case I will not going to listen them, I know I am male once I am married my parent and other family have to accept my choice ..I AM INDEPENDENT & SELF DEPENDENT.

Boys do have to get up against this evil and they have to say no to Dowry. They should understand one day they are going to be father of any girl.😊

There were incidents in the last few years where some girls walked out from marriages protesting against dowry. This has caught media's attention, & for every once information the name of girl is Nisha she is now married with some other guy.

Now The Dowry has changed in some other form'e.g. Software Engineer Boy need Software Engineer Girl or doctor or girl doing some job or professionally qualified.

And professionally qualified girl also accept such alliance, Even before falling in love gal will see what is the education of boy what he do, love is not done blindly everything is calculated. Girls can say that they are equal to male but fact is that they cannot be because they always think that their husband should be more qualified than them he should be more earning. This the way girls thinks in India...

In India if Girl is from IIM (i.e. who did management from Indian Institute of Management) she required Boy from IIM, is it like that they both can have same type of understanding if they study in IIM ? so calculation is everywhere.. 😉😊
Dowry should bann.banning something doesn't make a country communist or autocratic. it is just no the rule. it is just like this.you cannot commit a crime.

taking dowry is a crime in all the countries.

so if one country abolishes murder in a country then they dont' become communism.

banning is a step towards stopping it.
just a thought.... chill
vinu
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Posted: 16 years ago
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A wonderful topic, Vinu!

I'm 100% with you on this one!

The worst part is when the boy's family demands dowry and give a list of what they want. I find that disgusting. And instead of fulfilling their demands, the girl's family should realize what kind of a cheap family it is and not get their daughter married in that family. But due to societal pressure and what will the people think if her marriage is broken, the family fulfills the demands and brings in a problem of a life time.

Worse is that innocent girls are still dying because of lack of dowry. They are burned, killed, harassed, tortured because they didn't bring in enough dowry. How cruel can you be?! That's simply disgusting!

Sometimes it's only a case of what a girl wants for herself. Maybe a few nice clothes and shoes and all that. That's not dowry. That's just what the girl wants to take for herself. But anything else other than that is simply disgusting and should be banned forever.

-Mahi

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