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Posted on Nov 26, 2017
Married for a price: India's abandoned 'holiday wives' - BBC News
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Never quite understood the concept of marriage in India. Family arranges for proper compensation? Guess that may have worked a century ago, but in 2017????
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Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen
Somehow think they're doing nothing. Some crime show I watched recently featured a woman who killed her former fiancee's arranged marriage bride. Pretty recent as I recall, last couple years??
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Yeah normally I try to understand other cultures and customs but this is one where I don't care to understand there is no reason to justify this type of practice it's just false superiority by inferior thinking people. Just savages.
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A family in poverty seeing marriage to a rich man as a path to escaping that poverty. The legal age for marriage in India is 18, however it looks like the government is unable to enforce this law in some communities. On a side note, I believe that it's possible for a 15 year old girl to get married in Mississippi with parental consent, and I suspect a rich man who showed up with 100K to bribe poor parents would receive it.
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legal sex trafficking WTF, As much as I hate the U.N. this sounds like something they should work on stopping.
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There has been movement on that front I just hope India will officially be onboard with it.
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Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen
Somehow think current concept of "Sex Trafficking" won't overcome centuries of marriage tradition in India.
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