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thought about the economic burden of bride and bridegroom, coming on its part for the whole life after marriage ceremony held as well as the inability of bride in earning livelihood. So the bride groom-side began to recover compensatory amount from the bride side and that gave birth to the present dowry system.
Now a days dowry system is being seen in a very destructive form and day by day its awfulness is increasing. Indian government has passed rules against this system but that is mainly on paper not in practice. News papers daily present different news of burning, poisoning and suicide on the bridal parts. Even before marriage several young girls commit suicide when they see their fathers in painful position. The parents of young girls consider themselves as very unfortunate. They sell their paternal properties in order to fulfil the different demands of bridegroom's parents and become helpless and hopeless. In the case of unsatisfactory fulfillment of demands brides are killed directly or indirectly. So the dowry system presents a very - very vulgar form of social violence.
But the non-violence way of removing this disastrous and damaging system may be seen in the following way.
1) Both sons and daughters should be treated equally in all ways. Girls should be educated as well as boys are educated. They should be made able to earn their livelihood themselves. It means girls should not depend on male members of society. They should be ready very courageously to face all problems coming in their lives. But they should never be jelous with the male members of society, rather they should shake their hands with them co-operatively.
II) So far parents are concerned, they proclaim their duties towards own issues in three forms - (a) Nursing them (b) Educating them and (c) Managing their marriages. But as I think dowry, system will not come to its end till marriage - management will be in the hands of parents. So after educating their sons and daughters parents should leave them free, so that they may manage their lives according to their own sweet will.
III) After being free from the parental pressure, young boys and girls will arrange their marriage on the basis of love and as a result of
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