I don't think so. There are many love marriages which are accepted and performed as arranged marriages. But still there are incidents of dowry problem. After one or two years the families get together, the son comes back home and the mother starts commenting on the lack of materials in the house or the parents have not given them anything.. like that. Only if the love marriages take place and the couple live separately can the girl be happy without dowry menace. All the best

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I have also seen in some cases of love marriage that part of convincing the boy's family means more compromises on the bride's part, one of which is dowry.

So I think it is a mistake to think that just because dowry and arranged marriage came together in the past that love marriage is conquering dowry. Sadly. But have you seen cases in your own experience that would suggest that there is less likely to be dowry where love is involved but both families agree to the marriage?

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One of the main cause of the dowry is in India it is a traditional that woman should marry at the age of 18-21.After that she will become not eligible for the marriage.Off course now it may not be there.But I believe that the parents of woman might have fear in those days of the above cause.So they started buying the bride grooms.And so was the dowry system.

Another reason could be imbalance of men and woman ratio.

The remedies for Dowry system could be as follows :

This can only be accomplished through a fundamental shift in Indian socialattitudes about both marriage and women. Perceptions about appropriate roles for women must evolve to include education and employment, the current requirement that brides surrender all future assets to in-laws must be changed so that parents can depend on daughters as well as sons in their old age, and finally, the government must undertake sustained action to prevent employment and wage discrimination against women in the labor market. Unfortunately, there is an enormous period of lag time between the time when calls for social change are actually made and the time when societal beliefs and customs actually begin to transform. Today, dowry continues to be a socially accepted and rational outcome of the current Indian marriage market. True progress in the elimination of the dowry system will only come through endeavors to create awareness among Indian communities about the negative effects of dowry, through programs and government sanctions that endorse education and employment for women of all ages, and through a fundamental change in the attitudes of Indian peoples.

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Love marriages may replace dowry system. But, that will ruin our culture. It may be harsh to hear, but is the fact. Both the partners have a culture and heritage on their background, but both the cultures are being buried. What will happen to the future generation, if the same thing continues. The western people have learned values from us and are trying to follow it.

Some years latter we people from India will be going to US or UK to learn Ayurveda or meditation or yoga or Indian culture. It has value after it goes to other countries. We recognise its values. Where have gone all the nuclear families. Management starts from that family. Once that is broken you go to US to learn management there.

When dowry system was there they had been many initial problems, but, now what is the rate of divorces in the courts. What is the reason. Just think over.

I would say love marriage has both advantages and disadvantages. My opinion is it has more disadvantages in the long run. Think over.

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