No. I’m just responding to a post that said that the child bride thing didn’t happen in the west. It’s about power and accumulation of wealth. And I do know that in many cultures marriages are arranged even if they do not involve children. As a recovering divorce lawyer, I’m not opposed to arranged marriages if the whole family is involved. The ones I saw that didn’t work were where the families were vastly different culturally and had not spent the time exchanging gifts and having meetings. As recently as the 19th century there in this country children grew up understanding that the pool of marriage partners was specific and limited. My husband and I both have ancestors who lived in Kentucky and we joke that at about the time of the civil war our ancestors looked around at that generation’s crop of cousins and moved west.
So you think that when the poster said it did not happen in the west he should have included instances from hundreds of years ago before making that statement? Really?
How often do forced arranged marriages happen today in the West?
Do you also think Like BO we need to mention the crusades when someone points out the barbarism of radical islam?