Men and their escalating dowry demands.

India is a country where men believe they are the best thing to have happened to mankind. Any woman would not survive without them and we women should be thankful if any of them hold our hands promising us to give a roof and some children for lifetime. Unfortunately, what they forget is, without us they would have no children too and given us an opportunity we can make our lives better than what they are presently offering us.

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It is this thinking of men that they are superior, gave rise to the dowry system. Parents were supposed to give gifts in cash and kind to the guy who ties the matrimonial thread around their daughters neck. Well, the gift they were supposed to give usually depended on their will and their financial condition, but thanks to modernity men started demanding their choice of gifts from the girls parents.

Well, thinks we're still better when engagents broke because parents were unwilling to budge to the demands of their daughters fiance but the condition worsened when these men married their daughters and held them as captive forcing her parents to give in to his demands. It is sad that these parents who cannot see their daughters suffer keep giving cash and gifts to their daughters family just to see her happy.

These parents should understand that these dowry demanding men are like parasites. They will stick on to your daughters skin and drink her blood like leeches do because they know she is their gold egg laying duck. Just trouble her and get the cash.

Recently in Uttar Pradesh, northern India, a man was so angry that he tied his wife to the ceiling with her hands and legs tied tightly with rope and send the recording of the same to her parents. He expected them to come running with the cash that he demanded for his wife's delivery and the party that followed. Unfortunately, to his surprise, the parents went to the police with the recording and got him arrested under various dowry harrasment charges.

Educating parents and daughters in rural India to report such incidences is the only way with which we can curb this social evil. Tell girls and her parents that dowry demanding men can never keep them happy. It will always be a bad marriage which would eventually lead to physical harrasment and sometimes to even death.