ENGLISH ESSAY ‘dowry’ FROM 300 TO 350
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The
parents of the girls used to given certain items or money to the newly wedded
couples so that could start a comfortable life. But the form of dowry has
changed nowadays. Today, the success of marriage is seen in term of money and
free gifts, not in terms of happy and conjugal relations.
The
birth of a daughter in a Muslim family was considered as a sign of good luck.
Now this birth is considered as a burden on the shoulders of the parents.
Parents generally curse the day when a daughter is born to them. In some
far-off rural and tribal areas, people are compiled to resort to homicide
because of their poverty. These sinful acts are the shameful results of
unwanted dowry system. If the girl Child is spared to survive and grow, she
becomes the neglected object of the house. Discrimination is made between
daughters and sons and sons are preferred to daughters. Parents always remain
worried about the marriage of their daughters.
The
parents of the girls have to face huge demands of dowry when they go into the
market in search of prospective bridegrooms. The demands of dowry are so high
that their lifelong savings seem a drop in the ocean. They have to borrow and
neck-deep in debt for ever. If the parents are unable to fulfill the demands of
the groom’s parents, the bride has to face many problems. She is rebuked,
insulted and abused. The number of suicides among teenage brides is very high
in the country.
Much
has been said against dowry system but nothing has been done seriously. The
government should start an aggressive campaign against dowry system. Government
servants accepting dowry in cash or kind before or after marriage, should be
charge sheeted and terminated. It is a Good step taken by the government that
it has declared dowry a social crime and economic offence against humanity.
This evil cannot be wiped out by laws and the steps taken by the government.
The people must have awareness and they should remove this evil from the
society.
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