The dowry system
Giving something to the bride groom in the marriage or after marriage by the side of bridge’s family is called a dowry. The system of giving dowry has been known since the ancient time. At that time it was given as presents. Giving a gift is not bad but this system has now become a great crime. Now a days it has become a medium of money making by the side of bride groom’s family in most of the families, giving dowry is hypocrisy. Ostentatious and wasteful expenditures are the greatest problems for the general public. It is right for the harmful rich persons but very misfortunate for the medium and lower class persons. It is heard by the people that dowry is showing to other. But concern for dowries punishes hypocrites and those who keep saying “I have to dance to the tune of society.” The truth is that many people are secretly in love with these tunes. The truth is that many people are knowingly or unknowingly showing their pride by spending more money in their children, because they want to and can afford in without any hardship, are only doing what most of us their places might do.
In a nation of hungry millions, unproductive expenditure is a crime. The basic practice of helping a newly- wed couple make start is sensible. We must realize that giving dowries was a custom accepted long ago as it was practiced with a genuine interest in the future of the couple and the couple alone. Now it is evil of it. Young ladies and their present may say that they that are unable to find boys who don’t insist on a dowry what they really mean is that they have limited themselves to a very small group of bachelors, in order to satisfy their desire for status and respectability. In order to secure such husbands, they must be prepared to offer a large amount of money.
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