Barter your daughter for a daughter-in-law!

Don’t get provoked by the title and slap me. But this seems to be the motto of many families in Harayana. If you’ve got to get a bride for your son, just get your daughter married into the family of the bride. Weird isn’t it? As though this in itself is not enough, minor girls are being bartered to meet this almost-mandatory social custom.

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I do understand many of us have got our sisters or daughters married in the families from which we bring daughters-in-law to our own houses, but that is something done out of your free will and personal preferences. Here it seems for many poor families exchanging their daughters for their sons’ brides, is the only alternative.

May I ask why? If I’m not mistaken is it because by exchanging you save on dowry? Or, is it because the bride’s parents want to ensure better security for their daughters? Or is it because it’s customary in some communities? After all how long will girls be treated as commodities?

Whatever the reason, how long will we walk in the dark tunnel of narrow-mindedness? There is light at the other end. Shouldn’t we quicken our pace to see light?

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News Source :The Economic Times