The concept of "marriage for love" is a very recent development coming out of Europe.
Even in Europe, marriages were traditionally considered a form of "alliance", "treaty", and "business contract between two families".
The fact remains that societies which practice "arranged marriages" have the lowest divorce / broken family rates, whereas the more recent "love marriages" are producing a 50% divorce rate within 5 years (or less) of the marriage.
Today, the results of "love marriage" have degenerated even further...in addition to half of all marriages ending in divorce, domestic violence, sexual abuse of children, and homosexuality have become "standard issue" in Western culture.
In addition, the once honorable legal profession has produced "The Divorce Industry"...lawyers have grown so rich litigating broken marriages that they now specialize only in that one field of law.
And, because the first rule of business is "constant growth", the legal profession has been instrumental in supporting each and every condition in society which might result in broken homes; thus increasing their profits made from the misery of innocent children.
The Jews of ancient times practiced arranged marriage because life back then was short and dangerous...invading pagan armies of barbarians marauded all over the known world raping and slaughtering entire cities and villages. Jewish parents would "betroth" their sons and daughters while they were still in childhood, because then the parents knew with a certainty that if they were slaughtered or met with disaster that their children had already been set on a life path predetermined by their parents, and decided on with great deliberation to be in their best interests. In short, the "early betrothal" was a form of "Last Will & Testament" made public by parents to ensure the survival of their children as Jews.
Today still most of the very "Orthodox" Jewish communities practice arranged marriages. I have seen the results of them, and it appears that these families are every bit as happy and stable, if not much more so, than families produced by "love marriages".
Today in the U.S.A., for the first time in history, there are more females living without a husband then there are married females!
Perhaps the wisdom of old endures for a good reason...humankind's basic nature remains unchanged and unaltered, despite advances in technology and standards of living.
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