Yep. If you're an American father with daughters, all you can do is hope that your daughters have good judgment.
Now we can see some virtues of certain cultures, let's say India. If you are the parent, you do not have to worry about your daughter making this kind of mistake. You get to pick out the guy yourself from a well-known family.
Maybe in other times the Indian dowry system worked, but these days it makes everybody miserable.
I know a few Indian women in their 30s/40s who didn’t have a choice in their marriage. To say their lives are a prison cell is an understatement. Everybody is unhappy in that arrangement it seems - except dads and moms.