arranged marriages

Love and Loving in Middle-Class Pakistan

Victor Karandashev
 

The article by Ammara Maqsood, Associate Professor in Social Anthropology at University College London, tells us the modern story of love in Pakistan and how modern urban women manage their desire for love in Pakistan. Traditional marriages in Pakistan are arranged marriages. […]

The Golden Age of Love Marriage in Western Societies

Victor Karandashev
 

Love marriage appears to be a valuable cultural value in many countries throughout Europe, North America, Australia, and New Zealand, as well as many other modernized societies around the world. However, it was not always true in history. In the 20th century, […]

What Is “Love Marriage”?

Victor Karandashev
 

Love marriage is a marital relationship that is based on interpersonal love attraction. Men and women experience love attraction for each other and they rely on it in their decisions to marry. Love marriage assumes a mutual desire for a partner. The […]

The Evolution of Marriage: From Arranged Marriages to Love Marriages

Victor Karandashev
 

The cultural evolution of marriage coincides with the evolution of societies from traditional collectivistic societies to modern individualistic societies. Increased social mobility, economic wealth, and other ecological, economic, and social factors all contributed to this evolution. All these circumstances of living allow […]

The Changing Views on Divorce in Pakistan

Victor Karandashev
 

For generations, Pakistani families and marriages have been endogamous. Their parents or other family elders arranged their children’s marriages. These were the “arranged marriages.” Currently, marriage is still a family affair in Pakistan. Despite modernization, arranged marriages are still widespread. Parents and […]

What Pakistani Women and Men Think About Divorce

Victor Karandashev
 

Some modern Pakistani women and men sometimes think about divorce, despite the culturally negative attitudes toward divorce. Traditional Pakistani family relationships and marriages have been endogamous for centuries. How does it look in Pakistan? The boys’ and girls’ marriages were all arranged […]

Cultural Views on Divorce in Pakistan

Victor Karandashev
 

For generations, traditional Pakistani family relationships and marriages have functioned as endogamous unions. The parents of the children or other family elders arranged all marriage matters for the boys and daughters. They found a prospective mate for their grown child, organized their […]

Marriages in the Pakistani Diaspora Abroad

Victor Karandashev
 

The Pakistani diaspora in other countries often has the same conservative views on marriage as Islamic culture in Pakistan. Traditional Pakistani households and family unions have formed and run as endogamous marriages for many centuries. In the arranged marriages, the children’s parents […]

Controversies of Love Marriage in Pakistan

Victor Karandashev
 

Through the centuries, traditional families and marriage in Pakistan operated through arranged, endogamous marriages. Parents or other senior family members arranged the marriages of their children. For pragmatic reasons, young men and women married whomever their families selected for them. Romantic love […]

Love in Modern Arranged Marriages in Pakistan

Victor Karandashev
 

Traditional marriages in Pakistan were formed through arranged marriages. Most of them were endogamous marriages, when parents or other senior family members arranged marriages between the groom and the bride within the same extended family or community clan. Consanguineous marriages ensured the […]