Chinese Marriages

While reading the Chinese autobiographies, i was trying to figure out what i wanted to learn more about. Then it hit me, Chinese Marriages. I chose this topic because I have always wanted to know if the marriages were arranged or if they happened naturally or a little bit of both. Turns out that that law enforcement has not been able to stop parents from the practice of arranging marriages. Over the past 50 years the change in parental involvement has decreased a ton.

Parents are still involved, just in different ways. Now a days parents are involved, by giving potential partners, giving their opinions and advice. Arranged marriages are more common in other Asian countries. Arranged marriages are also most common in Royal families, because they want only the best of the best in the family. Most people get Arranged and Forced marriages confused. Arranged marriages are when the third party chose your significant other, however they still have a right to say no they do not want to marry that person. Forced marriages is when you have to marry that person even if you do not want to.

 As you can see on the picture to the right, a woman in a forced marriage has to wear his cloth over her face, because that is the tradition.

 If i lived in China, I do not think i would marry at all. And my reasoning is, i do not want to marry someone who i am arranged with and barely know. However i feel like that would be a very interesting experience. If i was forced to marry someone and i did not want to marry them, i would probably be thrown in jail for not obeying the "law" of forced marriages. Because i will not do something i do not want to do.

Sources: both Secondary

http://www.womenofchina.cn/womenofchina/html1/special/13/6171-1.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arranged_marriage