Arranged Marriages In Afghanistan

Inevitably most people in this country would agree the goal of marriage is to be happy and have a romantic and sexual relationship with your partner. In many places across the world love is almost unimaginable. Many women have arranged marriages every year, but that's not to say they all wanted to get married. While modern day society believes that one should find their partner based off of love and attraction, in Afghanistan majority of women are not given that luxury causing them to feel verbally abused, restricted in an educational way, also conflicted with adjusting to new cultures differing from their own background.
Not to say that all arranged marriages end up tragic, but there have been many that've been a recipe for disaster. In many arranged marriages you see signs of abuse whether it be physical or verbal. And in many cases the victim never says anything till much later or never says anything at all. Often times the husband moves the family to a different location leaving the family and …show more content…
In the middle east only in recent years have more girls started to get there educations. If your husband is telling you to stop going to school and take care of the house, that's almost like a slap in the face. I am a firm believer in equality in the sense where women should be able to do anything men can do. Unfortunately in Afghanistan and in that part of the world, they tend to look at it a little differently. In Afghanistan women do not have the same rights as men. It's the mentality of the people. Afghanistan was under control of the taliban for many years which made the rules and regulations for women much stricter. At the time period many women who were employed with respectable jobs were forced to quit their jobs and some even went into prostitution to support themselves. Nowadays in Afghanistan you see more women working but they can only work if their male relatives permit