In a remote rural area of India, a woman walks in the street. If someone wants to talk to her or take a photo with her, she must ask her husband's permission. You can't wear skirts and shorts when you go out, and your legs can't be exposed. Even in some Indian cities, it is common for husbands to beat their wives. Extremists, there are several reports that husbands throw gasoline to burn their wives every year. This is true, so I asked you if you were afraid.
Indian women not only have a low social status, but also pay a surprisingly high bride price when they get married. The custom of coarse marriage in India has a long history, and girls must marry a lot of property when they get married. If you bring less dowry to your husband's family, you will have no position at home in the future.
Generally, the dowry of Indian women will provide different levels of dowry according to the husband's family and education. For ordinary families, marrying a woman once is equivalent to bankruptcy. Marrying a woman has become a heavy burden for Indian families, which has also led to the phenomenon of women marrying late. Because there is another custom in India, the earlier a daughter gets married, the less dowry she brings to the man's family. In order to reduce the expensive dowry, many poor families married their daughters to their in-laws when they were very young.
Therefore, child marriage is very common in India, and child marriage incidents are common. Even a baby girl who is four or five years old or even in infancy can get married as long as someone takes a fancy to it. In addition, the blank punishment of child marriage in Indian law is so light that this phenomenon is increasing. The husband's family is also willing to help their children get married early, because it can save a lot of wedding expenses.
They are forced to become brides early when they should be playing, waiting for them to have no more opportunities for education, unreasonable accusations and abuse by their husbands, the pain of pregnancy and childbirth as minors, and the unfortunate widowhood and not being allowed to remarry. Of course, apart from avoiding high dowry, child marriage is also related to Indian religious customs. For example, Manu Code clearly stipulates: "A 30-year-old man should marry a girl aged 65,438+02, and a 24-year-old man should marry an 8-year-old girl."
In India today, one fifth of women get married before the age of 16, and the task after marriage is to have children. Many young mothers have children before they are 30.