My mom is a professor in a reputed university. And I have seen even her educated colleagues not spending much on their daughter's higher education because they want to save up all money for shaadi!
All they dream of is being able to pay kickass dowry - yes those who can afford it, think of it as a status symbol - ki humne apni ladki ko itna kuch de kar bheja hai!🤢
I know a lot of people who refused to get their daughters admitted in professional colleges or better universities and did not send them abroad or even to other city - simply because they felt spending money on education was useless, saving money for wedding was more important!😡
Parents sometimes believe giving large amount of dowry to girl shows their status, their ''love'' for the girl and also ensures their daughter is well taken care of in her in-laws home, because she brought a lot of wealth with her. Pathetic mentality fuelling a crass custom!
Of course, boys' parents are only too delighted at the prospects of moolah they can extort from girl's family once their son grows up and is of marriageable age.
Even in this age, in urban educated families too, girls are either praised or taunted depending on what they ''bring'' with them in marriage or what their parents gave them!🤢
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