I think in our modern society,the dowry can be canceled in marriage

thnx tht you have a deep knowledge on India. Me from india and yes, dowry is a near mandatory process in Indian arrange marriage. Though I do not support dowry, i feel instead of dowry, parents should share their property among their children irrespective of gender. In india, only son/s are illegible to enjoy parental property. In this present situation, I think dowry is an equalizing factor at least.

Sorry to tell you this only my opinion The tradition you mentioned is good only for a medieval people not on the modern age as we have now. Why dowry do you mean you will buy your wife to be. Marriage comes from the heart of person to be married and nobody can command them, what to do, that is already their personal life. Tradition is a tradition we can do it if the people in a country agree to that arrangement, we can do nothing. Women today is already of co-equal right with the men. I don't see any reason for that to exist in the modern world.

The dowry? I almost forgot it. You are right, as time goes by, the dowry is not necessary and it shall be gone in many places already. Today no more people have mentioned the dowry yet. After all, the new couples may have to buy the new houses and spend a lot for the wedding. They already don't have extra money for the dowry.

Hi, Dowry system should be removed from the society. It is very evil system. The girl's family is forced to give money, two wheeler, or four wheeler, jewellery etc. in the form of jewellery. Dowry is not allowed by law in India. But it is taken by many families. It is a burden for girl's family. So after giving birth to girl child parents become unhappy. They want boy. Because boy brings wealth and girl is responsible for spending lot of money in marriage. There are many cases of burning girl for the reason of not satisfying their needs of dowry. How cruel are these people !

In India dowry system is quite common. In fact, it seems like a culture in India. During every arranged marriages the parents of the bride groom seeks a lot of things like money, house hold things, Jewels, dresses,furniture,vehicles and other things as dowry and the parent of the bride is in the need to spend a lot of money to buy the required items as well as they are in need to spend the money for the marriage expenses. The parents of the brides suffer a lot due to the dowry system. Lot of people started to hate female kids as well as try to kill them before the birth due to the dowry system. If they have a girl child they are in need to spend a lot for her marriage and they must give dowry to the bride grooms parents at the time of marriage. Some poor parents in the village area will kill their girl babies to avoid the dowry. It is really hard to remove the dowry system unless the parents come forward to avoid asking dowry during marriage. Love marriage is the best alternate to avoid the dowry system. In love marriages both of the bride and groom have good under standing with each other and know about each other, they don't give importance to this kind of unwanted dowry system and marry their beloved persons without any dowry. People must come forward to remove this system from our society, which is the main reason for the killing activity of female kids. If the dowry system is completely removed from our society, surely people will give up their activity killing their girl children at their birth time. Remove the dowry system from the society to avoid the killing activity of the innocent babies.

I remember during the old times, dowry was very significant when marriage occurs but it comes to the guy's side and not to the women. But, as I notice this days and this generation, the dowry system is fading already. But in our province, the church wedding still been practiced. The system now for most couples are more on live in.

Dowry requirement from the bride's side of the family is not a common practice in many culture, it is only take place in a few countries in this modern era, only certain group of people still practice this ancient traditional culture in the world today that demand dowry before they agree to take in the bride of their son's choices. I will think it would be very difficult for this tradition to be concealed completely from the Indian culture, the most we can hope for is that the bridegroom is given some say on this matter, he should be the one who should decide whether dowry is necessary or not, not his parent. The mentality of paying dowry in order to have your daughter marry to a man is no doubt very difficult to completely reform or canceled overnight, it may require another century or two for that to happen, it will continue to remain as a big burden for the Indian bride's family for some time, i have no doubt about it. Those family who have daughter but without much wealth may find it quite difficult to have an arrange marriage for their daughter in a traditional way.

of course it should be removed. In my opinion most of the regions in my country have already taken step to stop this. But the problem is that it is still in prevail in almost all parts. Even though in my place it is not present as such but in some other forms, I should say. The problem I see here is that if the girl's family is not willing to give the dowry the boy's family is not willing to marry her. Then what her parents gonna do?There is no other option with them !!

For many years it has been expected that a bride's family would offer a dowry to the the intended groom in marriage. Traditions do change over the years and it is not expected to offer a bride with a dowry as much. Some countries do hold onto these traditions and a dowry is a sign of respect between the union of two families.

Here dowry is part of all hindu marriages, some demand directly, some indirectly.

But my friend there are some people even after laws not to accept and give the dowry it's still being practice and I it will be. You and me may wants to stop it or don't want to accept the dowry at the time of our son wedding but not everyone will do or follow what you and me have done or want to do.

These arrange marriages are the victims of dowry. Now since, we are now educated more than our parents, we should make sure that we do not ask dowry for our children marriage. If we do not ask for dowry, naturally our children too will not ask for dowry and this way to some extent dowry can be removed. So it's up to us how we handle the issue in near future. Cheers and happy my lotting.