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Old 05-Jan-2007, 05:00
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"For example, a husband or wife may have already fallen in love with someone else, so they do not want to live or share relationship and time with those that got married. They may run away from home or commit suicide if their parents or family put too much pressure on them or force them to continue living with their partner.
The second disadvantage of the arranged marriage is that the family’s reputation and honor can be affected by the couple. According to the above disadvantage, the husband and wife can cause serious troubles to their family. For instance, at the time a daughter or son runs away from home either before or after marriage, both husband and wife families’ reputation are ruined. Relatives and neighbors might look down on parents. Sometimes people may even insult the parents and say that the parents cannot educate their children well. Another scenario that would be even more shameful is if the bride or groom runs away from home on the wedding day. This is a problem that we all often hear and meet in our society.
The third disadvantage of an arranged marriage is the bad influence it has on our society. Although having little happiness or lacking good relationship and having a divorce are individual problems, these still directly affect society. (use affect as a verb, effect as a noun) When there is an increase of divorce rate, the number of divorcées will increase because men are much easier to find a new partner?? (please clarify), whereas divorcées have difficulty finding a new/another (instead of another new) partner to spend the rest of their life with. That is why the government is now concerned about divorcées’ living condition. Moreover, many divorced women have to be responsible for everything?? in order to survive. Divorced mothers have a heavier burden. It is not surprising that children may have metal problems? (not sure what english term is for this, perhaps neurological conditions??). They can be easily influenced by gangsters and start making bad friends at school. When they have a lot of bad friends, they may start using drugs. They may even become gangsters and start stealing money or property from home and committing crime. As the result, this can decrease the amount of human resources available, and the government will have to spend more money on building habitation centers for drug addicts and developing more human resources.
Even though arranged marriage has advantages, its disadvantages seem to be more serious to family and society, especially for the couple. Arranged marriage system nowadays has changed because of these problems. (don't start sentences w/ because) People can see their husband or wife before marriage, and they get a choice of whom they will marry. Their parents introduce prospective partners, but there is no force involved. In my opinion, (how formal is this, you want to avoid this unless informal) the two partners should make the ultimate decision; however, it is also important to seek the approval of parents because without parents’ consent the marriage cannot prosper.
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