Arranged Marriage

On the Merits of an Arranged Marriage

Dora Levy Mossanen | Posted 05.23.2012

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Was theirs an arranged marriage? It certainly was. Were they different in every imaginable way? You bet. Yet they managed to build a relationship based on love and trust. I wonder whether that was possible only because divorce was not an option at the time.

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Hasidic Marriages Are Not Forced, Nor Arranged. They Are Perhaps Recommended

Yossi Gestetner | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Judaism, Hasidic Jews, Arranged Marriage, Shiduch, Jewish Marriage, Orthodox Judaism, Hasidism, Religion News

One of the attacks often mounted against Hasidic life is a notion that Hasidic parents take a 17-year-old girl and 18-year-old boy, place them in a room against their will and an engagement is declared 30 minutes later.

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Notes From A Week-Long Indian Wedding

MeiMei Fox | Posted 03.19.2012

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Ever since I saw "Monsoon Wedding" -- Mira Nair's visually stunning film about an arranged marriage in India -- ten years ago, I have longed to be a guest at such an affair.

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Why I Love My Arranged Marriage

Meera Sriram | Posted 02.25.2012

Read More: Arranged Marriage, Marriage, Love Marriage, Marriage in India, Marriage in South Asia, Western Marriage, Weddings News

The term "love marriage" is absent in the West. In India and a few other countries in South Asia, it would denote one of the two possible ways leading to a union, the other being arranged marriage.

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What We Can Learn From Arranged Marriages

Kristen Houghton | Posted 08.29.2011

Read More: Traditional Marriage, Arranged Marriage, Modern Arranged Marriage, Arranged Marriage India, Forced Marriage, Love & Sex, Women News

Last year, I met a young Indian couple on their honeymoon. When I asked how long the bride and her husband had known each other before they were married, the answer was unexpected.

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'Strategic' Wedding Set For Bahrain And Saudi Royal Families

AP | Posted 08.17.2011

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MANAMA, Bahrain -- Bahrain says the son of the island nation's king and the daughter of Saudi Arabia's monarch have agreed to wed – further ceme...

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Bin Laden's Wife Vowed To Be 'Martyred' Alongside Him

AP | By AHMED AL-HAJ | Posted 07.11.2011

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IBB, Yemen -- Osama bin Laden once gave his wives the option of leaving Afghanistan, but his young Yemeni bride was determined to stay and be "martyre...

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Teen Who Reportedly Ran Away To Avoid Arranged Marriage Found Safe

Skokie, IL Patch | Ted Regencia | Email the Author | 11:11am | Posted 06.20.2011

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A Skokie teenager who went missing since last month after fleeing from her family has been found early Wednesday. Zaineb S. Chaudary, 16, "was fou...

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Police: Illinois Teen Ran Away To Avoid Arranged Marriage

Posted 06.18.2011

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Law enforcement agencies throughout Illinois are looking for a missing Skokie teen who may have run away from home to avoid an arranged marriage. ...

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Guilty: The Decapitation of Aasiya Zubair

Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 05.25.2011

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Though many people claimed to love Aasiya, none of them did enough. Laws are useless in the face of inadequate support systems in a person's family and friend network that can help extract one from her abusive situation.

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Dustin Hoffman: Calls Marriage 'Unnatural,' Prefers Arranged Marriage

Posted 05.25.2011

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His new film 'Little Fockers' is all about the difficulty of married life -- and Dustin Hoffman doesn't think it's fiction. If it were up to him, we'd...

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Syrian Boy, 5, Proposes To 3-Year-Old Girlfriend

The Huffington Post | Curtis M. Wong | Posted 05.25.2011

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While their peers are still focused on playground games and cartoons, a pair of Syrian children have become the talk of their country as possibly the ...

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Wedding Bells for Pakistan and India

Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 05.25.2011

India's biggest female tennis star, Wimbledon contender Sania Mirza, is in love, and she's set to marry a Pakistani -- Shoaib Malik, a well-known member of Pakistan's national cricket team.

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Presenting Malawian Girls With A Classroom, Not A Forced Marriage

Joseph Scott | Posted 05.25.2011

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Traditional customs in Malawi still allow parents to marry their daughters off -- their dreams and aspirations are destroyed. Concern Worldwide's goal is to improve their access to quality education.

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Will U B My Good Enough Valentine?

Melanie Chartoff | Posted 05.25.2011

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Marry Him: The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough, impeccably researched tome, is mandatory reading for girls who've not yet grasped the "unavailable parent" part of their inability to let someone love them.

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Why "Marry Mr. Good-Enough" is Dark Ages Nonsense in a Modern Disguise

Lesley M. M. Blume | Posted 05.25.2011

Ms. Gottlieb argues that we're here to procreate -- in an unhappy union with a mismatched partner, if need be; below, Lesley M. M. Blume begs to differ.

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Saudi Girl, 12, Drops Plan To Divorce 80-Year-Old Cousin

Posted 05.25.2011

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A 12-year-old Saudi girl has unexpectedly dropped her application to divorce her 80-year-old second cousin, despite intervention from human rights gro...

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Indian Parents Look To Web To Arrange Matchmaking And Marriage

Columbia Journalism School | Mirela Iverac | Posted 05.25.2011

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When Shreyas Deokule phoned his parents in Mumbai, India, in the summer of 2008, he received unexpected news. They had posted his profile on a matri...

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Post Valentines Day: Rewrite Romance -- Arranged Marriage Style

Reva Seth | Posted 05.25.2011

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When it comes to romance, women in arranged marriages are getting it right. And yes, I really mean that.

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Arranged Marriage: What It Can Teach Us

Posted 11.17.2011

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Reva Seth, author of First Comes Marriage: Modern Relationship Advice From The Wisdom of Arranged Marriages wrote a piece for Tango on the divisive is...

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Matchmaking Vs. Arranged Marriage: What's The Difference?

The Huffington Post | Posted 11.17.2011

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Lately we've been wondering, with all the matchmaking in the air -- the explosion of online dating, the resurgence of traditional matchmaking (as seen...

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