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disadvantage of dhowary system

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disadvantage of dhowary systemAdvantages of Dowry System in India
Though the practice of dowry is publicly condemned, legally banned and morally despised of in practice it still persists as some of the supporters of this system argue that this practice has its advantages. Some of the arguments in favour of dowry by the supporters of this system are discussed here under.
1. 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:
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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:
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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.Hence they have to borrow money or sell a piece of their property or mortgage valuable articles of the family to give dowry in daughter’s marriage which becomes ultimately a great economic burden for parents to repay the borrowed amounts after marriage. Therefore Gandhiji has stated that one, who makes dowry a pre- condition for his marriage, not only shows disrespect to women but also humiliates his own nation, education and womanhood and such young person’s should be socially boycotted.
2. Increases corrupt attitude of parents:
Many parents develop their corrupt attitude to collect money for paying dowry. They accept all sorts of briberies. They undertake unsocial activities like smuggling or earn by unfair means. Thus dowry practices forces some parents to be corrupt.
3. Lowers the standard of living:
Each marriage of daughters leads the drainage of money from brides’ side due to dowry practice and breaks the backbone of the family by lowering the standard of living, if of course the family earns by legal means.
4. Dowry leads to some immoral practices:
In order to escape from the menace of dowry, some young girls prefer to undertake jobs to earn huge amount of money to meet the dowry expenses and thereby reduce the dowry tension of their parents. In the process some innocent girls are carried away by the false promises of the young boys and are often sexually cheated to be made pregnant. Subsequently such girls are socially defamed and finally they are forced to commit suicide finding no alternatives.

Answer 2

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Disadvantages of Dowry System in India

1. Dowry causes great economic burden on bride's family.
2. Increases corrupt attitude of parents.
3. Lowers the standard of living.
4. Dowry leads to some immoral practices.
5. Dowry practice lowers the status of women.
6. Dowry system makes imbalance in the sex ratio.
7. Dowry practice enhances psychological tension.
8. it makes child marriage likely.
9. It leads to female infanticide.
10. It discriminate against the disable.