Social Evil Of Dowry Essay

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The social evils of dowry and dowry death are too many and too apparent. Because of this evil, thousands of deaths and occurrences of bride burnings are informed every year in our country. Many more cases of this type are never mentioned about. When they fail to bring in an adequate sum of dowry, in cash or kind, young brides are treated cruelly and tortured , harassed, and burned alive and insulted by theirthe groom’s family.
This immoral and vile system has generated black money, corruption, greed and many financial malpractices, besides various psychological complexes. The money of dowry is often raised by the sale or mortgaging of land at low prices. It also includes livestock, trees, household goods and family jewellry and as well as loans from moneylenders at high rates of interest.
The evil of dowry is a great insult to womanhood. It is a symbol of male superiority and woman’s degradation. Due to this evil, the birth of a daughter is looked down upon with from woman becomes a burden.When a female child is born in a family, particularly in Northern India, the faces of all the members of the family fall. The very expression of joy disappears from their visage. It looks as if they had come under the ellipse to sorrows and miseries. Even the …show more content…

Greedy people doesn’t even care about the health of pregnant girl and they say her to ask her parents to give more money to them for the upcoming child. Their greediness sometime cause the unborn baby and the baby losses its life. They even beat her for money. This kind of rubbish and rascal people in society are like forest animals. We can find some normal heading in news papers like “Woman suicides due to abuse and tease from mother-in-law”, “Mother-in-law burn her daughter-in-law for dowry” and much more. The majority of indian people will agree that girls are not safe even after their marriage.In short following are the main evls of dowry

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