Dowery Deaths
Silenced by their culture large populations of women in India tolerate abuse and subsequent death because they have provided insufficient dowry. In a culture that is male dominated women are raised to be servants to their husbands often arranged to marry a man that they have never met. Women that are beaten or just unhappy must suppress their feelings to keep their husbands blissful or face shame and be turned away by their own families. Indian women's household must pay a dowry for the privilege of marrying a man of status. The dowry often consists of money, merchandise, or gold that is displayed when the couple is married. Women are being mistreated for insufficient dowry money because the groom's family may be greedy and would like more items. If the bride's family cannot provide more for the in-laws they will kill her so that he may keep the dowry he already had collected and then marries another that may possess more money or status. The original dowry is determined by the perceived value of the husband's hand in marriage. If the husband is very desirable then he commands a very high dollar figure, if the offer of money is too low then the groom's family will not accept it because it is an insult.
Waters, Anne. "Domestic Dangers; Approaches to women's suicide in contemporary India." Violence against Women V5N5, May 1999: p525-547 Chaturvedi, Subhadra. "Whether Inheritance to women is a viable solution to the Dowry problem." Violence against Women V5N5, May 1999: p525-526. Mandelbaum, Paul. "Dowry deaths in India." Commonweal Vol 126, October 1999: p18.
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