Arranged Marriage Analysis

In the medieval, the arranged marriage which is a type of marital union where the bride and groom are selected by a third party rather than by themselves seems to be a norm worldwide. This sort of marriage is ludicrous especially in the contemporary society, however, it gradually tends to be set up by modern individuals' parents or marriage agency excluding the royal and aristocratic clans and numerous in underdeveloped countries. Although this marriage sounds ridiculous and against the human rights, it absolutely bears some merits catering to the modern lifestyle and relationship pattern.

Arranged marriage is much more effortless and like a short cut of love because the tedious and intricate process of maintaining the relationship and dating is omitted and they are under the influence of the same culture, share the same religious conviction and grow up in a similar social class. Individuals incline to an unvarnished and easeful lifestyle and the marriage does not occupy as the same ratio of life as five to ten years ago. On the one hand, boys may save the money which is used on dating because they do not need to buy too many things that pleased the girl. Moreover, in several circumstances, a date or a courtship is quite embarrassing and time-consuming especially for the adults who were forced to have a date under the pressure of their parents even from their grandparents. On the other hand, the spouse can cut down on the daily expense because their children will be nursed by their parents rather than babysitters and their children can live in a warm environment and a harmony atmosphere and feel more comfortable without strangers. Arranged marriages, according to the marriage experience of the parents and the marriage agency, alw...

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... Zhu Yingtai, who fall in love with each other in the ancient China. Though the girl's father has knew it and Zhu threats her father with her life to resist her father's arrangement, he still force his daughter to marry with another richer boy called Ma Wencai whose father is a prefecture, which results to the deaths of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai finally. In order to resolve the problem, not only the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women has laid down some clauses in mentioning the ban of arranged marriage, but also various international organizations, including UNICEF, have campaigned for specific laws to ban arranged marriages of children. In addition, activists such as Charlotte Bunch, the head of American women leadership center, also suggested that marriages arranged by parents and other family members should be autonomous.