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'''Arranged marriage''' is a practice by which men find wives with the help of familial connections, with parents of both the prospective bride and groom playing a role in vetting the other party and their family, and deciding whether they're suitable. | '''Arranged marriage''' is a practice by which men find wives with the help of familial connections, with parents of both the prospective bride and groom playing a role in vetting the other party and their family, and deciding whether they're suitable. There is substantial evidence that arranged marriage was the norm throughout much of human history.<ref name="apostolou2019">https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/147470491201000308</ref> | ||
Cited benefits of arranged [[marriage]] are that it helps keep [[social awkwardness|socially awkward]], [[shy]] and [[betabuxx]]-tier men from being [[incel]]s. Some claim it assures better compatibility and marital success, compared to a [[love marriage]] between two young people who lack the wisdom of age, and indeed arranged marriages last longer than normal marriages,<ref>https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2217232/arranged-marriages-lead-to-happier-relationships-because-couples-put-more-effort-in-to-make-them-work/</ref> which however also could be attributed to the stricter culture preventing or deferring divorce. | |||
Contrary to widely held views, arranged couples are just as happy or unhappy as other couples.<ref>https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1474704919887706</ref> | |||
Arguing based on the high prevalence of arranged marriage in human history, it has been conjectured that humans have to some extent evolved to accept parental mate choices and diminished direct courtship adaptations such as flirting skills, thus, the decline of arranged marriage may explain some of the raise of inceldom.<ref name="apostolou2019"></ref> | |||
Some arranged marriages are also [[forced marriage]]s, in which one or both spouses have no choice about getting married. Women were traditionally treated as property who had no right to refuse [[marriage]] their fathers wanted them to be a part of, but men also have been forced into [[marriage]] through [[shotgun wedding]]s to girls they deflowered, as a way of paying the most optimal form of restitution for defiling them. | |||
Perversely, forced marriage is considered a ''criminal act'' in many countries even when there is no evidence for any harm (similar to [[no-fault divorce]]), and even though the use of e.g. unreasonable domestic violence is already covered by other laws. | Perversely, forced marriage is considered a ''criminal act'' in many countries even when there is no evidence for any harm (similar to [[no-fault divorce]]), and even though the use of e.g. unreasonable domestic violence is already covered by other laws. | ||