Abstract
Dowry is a kind of gift which is given by bride’s family in the form of durable goods, cash and movable-immovable property to her husband and his family on the occasion of marriage. According to : vacabulary.com – “ In some cultures, the bride or her family pays a certain amount of money or property to the groom when a couple is married. This payment is called dowry”. Britannica.com (2015) – “Dowry is the money, goods or estate that a woman brings to her husband or his family in marriage”. Harbilas sarda – “The money which is given by parents to bride-groom is called gift, but when it crosses its certain limit is called dowry”. Dowry system is continuing since ancient time in all over the world specially in India. This is a very serious problem for us. Dowry Death is seen. Instead of a happy married life, they choose death. This is the main cause of female infanticide and domestic violence. Radhika R.H. (2011) – “An Autopsy study of socio-etiological aspects in dowry death cases” unnatural deaths of married women amongst the total female deaths have been an increasing trend in Indian Society during the recent past year which may be suicide, homicide or even accidents”.
Highlights
SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION The present study was done on 200 college boys and girls to know their attitude towards dowry, Attitude can be affected by different variables such as Inhabitation, nature of family, father’s education, caste, anxiety, insecurity, extraversion neuroticism, psychoticism etc
The general conclusions are below In this research it was found that boys have more positive attitude towards dowry in comparison of girls
Boys who are from urban area have positive attitude but urban girls have negative attitude towards dowry
Summary
Dowry is a kind of gift which is given by bride’s family in the form of durable goods, cash and movable-immovable property to her husband and his family on the occasion of marriage. In this research the effect of anxiety, security, insecurity, extrovert-introvert personality, inhabitation, caste, nature of family has been seen on attitude towards dowry. In ‘arranged’ marriage settings that are characterized by incomplete information in the sense that true quality of the groom remaining unobservable to the bride and in the presence of observable traits like education that are easier for the better quality groom to achieve, education-dowry contracts can Potentially serve a screening instrument” This is clear that dowry system is Present in different countries of the world. It must be prohibited we should Promote inter-caste and inter religion marriage to get rid of this evil culture
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