Part-3
4. Hard & Fast Examination of Marriage for Women:
The relatives of groom’s family visit to examine the bride as if she is a commodity whose outward beauty and features have to be scrutinized. Besides there are many implied rules of examination towards women to be chosen for marriage in many societies. There is a saying: 100 successful talks from groom’s family play role in the occurrence of a marriage.
5. Mockery of Marriage:
In many countries, there are many women who are continuing married life living with their husbands under the same roof without any mental understanding for the sake of their children and society. Is this the aim of marriage?
In several cases, there is no question of liking of a bride about the selection of her appropriate life partner. She may be bound to live with a man with whom she has no mental matching, and it creates an unhappy conjugal life. And the worst victims are women. Sometimes women have to tolerate the presence of several wives or girl friends of their husbands, but those husbands restrict their wives to have any male friend.
Women face also negligence in decision making, economic freedom, self determination and other perspectives of familial lives without any protest in many cases.
6. Forced to over work:
Many women are bound to work from dawn to dusk but they can’t win the satisfaction of her husband and in laws.
(to be continued)