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1. ern+sw[view] [source] 2015-09-07 01:53:38
>>jimsoj+(OP)
I wonder what the effect of this phenomenon will be on India's famously low divorce rate. And if the divorce rate does increase, will it increase for both arranged and non-arranged marriages at the same pace?

Can young people make better choices than their parents? Or has the divorce rate been so low because parents had a bigger stake in mediating to save face?

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2. sridca+gA[view] [source] 2015-09-07 04:01:16
>>ern+sw
Both factors come into play.

Arranged marriages, in nearly all aspects, emphasize communal values in place of individual wants and as such marital disharmony is worked around (or pushed under the carpet) for the sake of the group. And individual satisfaction is hardly desired by the group.

However as young people increasingly become independent, and (ironically) continue to emulate Western values, they develop little tolerance for such compromise and will readily opt for separation if necessary .. to the point that Indian divorce statistics may well come to resemble that of the US.

All the while hardly anyone questions marriage/love itself.

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