Is marriage a do or die afair? Because most culture and ways of life has made it look like it. women to a man is not just a companion but also a helper. In some part of the world it's a very big deal if a woman is not married when she is up to marriageable age, women goes through a lot in that aspect when not married, she will be talk down on, direspected, she will receive all manner's of insult just because she is not married.
I knew of a woman that in her family it's only her that didn't got married, she is being treated badly even her household members, they always try to mock her at every slit opportunity, because she is more than 50years of age now.
To me the most ugliest part of it is that in some part of the world, women are not given part of their inheritance, it's only the male child, they believe that woman will get married and have a new home.
In which part of the world is this still happening? Things have changed now, people now decide if they want to be married or stay single for the rest of their lives and there are no big issues about it. There were times when divorce used to seem like an abomination, but now people even even celebrate being separated . All these cases have been made easy because the stereotypes have reduced and the stigma that comes with being unmarried or divorced too have reduced. All thanks to civilization that has made everyone believe in the equality of the man and the woman. What The people are more concerned with is how to develop themselves and control scarce resources at their disposal.
The most painful part of it is even the ones that got married and found their self in an abusive marriage, will find it difficult to walk away because she doesn't want to stay unmarried. Please let's all of protect our women, they also have the right to live.
Most women who remain in abusive marriages stay back because they have little or no means of survival if they leave. This explains why the financially buoyant women who are in abusive marriages choose divorce faster without looking back.
I would hazard a guess that its either or both the middle east, pakistan and India
(to be general)
I suspect that these societies still largely practice organised or arranged marriages.
In my country too women are free to choose who and when to marry, whether to
have a religious or civil marriage or decide no to at all, thats freedom end equality.
Marrying in order to have children, honestly the world needs less people, not more so I
dont care if people marry and dont have children or dont marry at all.
I am totally against religion anyway and totally for the abolition of some rules imposed
on people based on societal customs like marrying before or at an "optimal" child bearing age.