What are your thoughts about Arranged Marriage?

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Arranged Marriage or Fixed Marriage has somewhat been a tradition in some countries. It is where other individuals, mostly their parents, choose whom them will marry. Marriages are already arranged even when chidren are still little. What's worse is that there are times that teenage girls are wed to older men. There are also times that they only see their spouse for the first time in the wedding itself. And for sure feelings of care and love are still not present in that time. How can you marry someone and how can a marriage work if those are not present. In other countries, dowry is given to the girl's family in exchange for their daughter. So, the more daughters you have, the more dowry you get. For me,it is like selling your very own child, you are treating them like commodities. Of course, when a girls steps into married life, she drops out from school just to focus on domestic chores. If you know that you have already been arranged to be wed, I think you wouldn't bother to go to school anymore because you know that you might just not finish it in the end. Why would you bother to aspire and to dream when you know that you cannot achieve them because you will get married. When teenage girls are wed, there is of course a chance that they will be pregnant at a very young age. With their young bodies, pregnancy and labor can be difficult for them. There is also a high chance that they can be physically and sexually maltreated because of their small built compared to their husbands. My only question is why such custom or tradition still persists upto this age when they know that it results to nothing good. If you are in a fixed marriage, would you still allow your children to undergo the same situation as yours?