[spoonybard]

Personally, I disagree with it. The parents aren't going to be the ones marrying the person that they are sending their kids off to, so it is not a decision they have to make. One of my grandfathers dated much, but every time he bought girls home to meet his mother, she wouldn't approve because they weren't up to her standards. In the end, he moved out of the island and to the continental US because of this and married my grandmother without consulting his mother because she obviously would never be happy with his choice of bride.

Also, some people arrange marriages for the purpose of money and prestige; they don't particularly care about their child's happiness. Once the kids get married, they don't have to worry about them, and they don't seem to pay much attention to what happens afterwards. These different ways of thinking are what causes some people to restrict who they are in a relationship with. I don't know what happened to this lady that I checked in, but she had a resident card and a document that's given to refugees.

This woman is from Iraq, a country where this sort of thing is quite common, and the people who saw the picture in the refugee document said that she certainly looked like she was running away from something(logically). Her hair was an absolute mess, and she looked exhausted. There may be many reasons for her fleeing, but I believe that besides being in a war torn country where women are abused in every sense of the word, there was definitely something else going on.