Is arranged marriages acceptable? Doesn't it make more sense to help your daughter find a good husband, so she can help with your aged care?

Arranged marriages are logical, and seem to be much more successful, statistically, than love based unions. Love and lust are synonyms. Love is a chemical imbalance in the brain, with undetermined effects, and of indeterminate duration. As such it's a poor basis for marriage. Most love based marriages fail. Parents know their kids. They know their good and bad points. They know kids better than kids know themselves. Therefore parents are far better qualified to choose a mate, than the children themselves. Results prove this.

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I personally do not believe in arranged marriage I think people should marry for love. Commit too someone they wish too grow old with not someone who has basically paid for them too marry. I think it is an old and disgusting practice and parents should allow their kids too marry the person they want too marry.

Arranged marriages were an accepted practice in some societies but the rate of success was extremely low. You're right, it's much better to assist a son or daughter to find a mate whom they feel will be a better spouse.

If your only goal is marrying your daughter off to a guy willing to pay for your retirement you probably won't be looking at all the important factors that make a marriage either function or fail. But if you can think more about your daughter's happiness and less about bagging some sucker to pay your own bills, arranged marriages can work out.

Obviously you put your needs above your daughter's needs. In my country I think actually forcing a daughter to marry a man of her parents choice against her will is illegal. I knew a father years ago who organised a husband for his daughter. The husband tried to force his new wife to support them by prostituting herself, and the guy in the end shot and killed his own son in law out of anger.

The problem is that marriage is certainly somewhat about money, but it’s not ONLY about money. If you stick her with some guy who she doesn’t like, it’s not going to work

Yes, just make sure she is legal. Some places it might be 13... Others 16 and most 18... In a few 21....

But what matters more than aged care? NOTHING! Because without aged care you might get sick.