Question

Debate on "DOWRY" ( both favor & against )

Answer 1

The bride’s family

In a way, we cannot completely keep the girl’s family out of the question of dowry. Majority of parents wish to get their daughters married to brides who are well off with the prospects of inheriting their parental property and are highly salaried. If manhood is to be judged in terms of financial position, then the parents have to shell out a huge sum to buy an expensive groom. Rather the concern could be to get a loving and caring partner for their daughter and his capability to run the affairs of the family in a successful way. This calls for a serious change in attitude.
The groom’s family

In most cases, the main culprit responsible for the dowry system is the family of the groom which seeks to mint money overnight through this sure winning lottery of dowry. While their greedy list of wants can create tremors in the bride’s family, less is to be said about the tortures, shame and troubles faced by the brides in several households when they are married since it is self evident. While this happens as a team work by all in the groom’s family, how it could impact the bride’s family is never thought of even on humanitarian grounds.



The way out

In the first place, we need to take the legislative measures regarding the girls’ share of parental property take effect practically too. In most families, the male siblings of brides do not allow this to happen which is preventing the law to take full effect. Assuring the parental property for the girls after marriage can help minimise the demands in terms of dowry.


. Dowry helps newly married couple to establish their family:

The advocates of the practice of dowry say that the dowry, money, utensils and other house hold articles that a bride brings at the time of marriage help the newly married couple to establish their new home and also enables them to furnish their home with necessary accessories.



2. It makes marriage of ugly looking girl easy:

Practice of dowry makes the marriage of ugly looking, uneducated and aged girl easy as huge amount of dowry acts as effective and useful method for luring suitable bride groom for the bride.

3. Supports the Higher Education of poor boys:

The practice of dowry solves the financial problem of poor young bachelors and gives support for higher education to prospective bridegroom.



4. Raises the status of women in family:

Supporters of this system think that marriage is a girl’s life insurance and the dowry is the premium. A girl earring with her huge amount of dowry feels confident while entering her in-laws house and is given greater attention and importance in-laws family where as a girl without dowry feels uneasy and apprehensive. Besides, it enables for a lower Class / Caste women to marry an upper class/ caste boy through which she can be able to raise her status in the society.

5. Promotes Inter-caste, inter religion and inter- state marriage:

Dowry helps to find a suitable bridegroom from other cast, religion or form other state Dowry is practically helpful when in a particular caste we are not able to find a suitable and qualified boy for a suitable girl.

6. Acts as a provident fund:

Supporters of this practice put arguments that dowry acts as a provident fund for the girls to face many financial hazards in future as boys of other cast and religion easily allured by dowry and give their consent for inter-cast, inter- religion and inter-state marriage.

Disadvantages of Dowry System in India

In modern times this custom has taken magnified proportion and has emerged as contemptible social evil because this system has more disadvantages than advantages. Practice of dowry which assumed the form of an institution over the years has caused lots of hardship to large number of people in the Indian society. It reduces the sacred institution of marriage to business transaction. It has degraded a young maiden to the level of a saleable commodity. Dowry has virtually become a menace in the Indian society. Its practice leads to various evil consequences among which the following may be noted.

1. Dowry causes great economic burden on bride’s family:

Dowry has become a great economic burden to the middle and lower class families. These people live hand to mouth. They rarely save money. They spend their resources to meet their necessary want, for children’s education and in meeting various social obligations.

Answer 2

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