In the article "A Prisoner in the House," published in New Internationalist, the author Samira Shackle talks to women who were forced into arranged marriages and shares the story of their torture. Jasminder was just nineteen years old when she was forced into arranged marriage. Right when she arrived to her husband's house, her mother-in-law told her to start cooking. She was forced up at five in the morning to prepare dinner for that evening. She could only drink water when she was given permission, and she wasn't allowed in the bathroom for more than five minutes. Mandeep is another woman who was forced into arranged marriage. Her husband threw out her passport and looked through her phone to make sure she hasn't been calling anyone. Her husband's family found her a job in a factory, and she was escorted to work by her mother-in-law everyday so she didn't make friends. When the family went away for the weekend, they left Mandeep tied up and gagged in the garage in the middle of winter.
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How can people be so cruel? I don't agree with arranged marriages just for that reason! The torture that these women go through. "Campaigners say that around 500 women every year face a similar situation," (Pg. 1). That is just plain sad. The women's families don't even realize what is happening to their daughters. Arranged marriages are a bad idea. No woman should have to go through that. Who wants to be gagged and tied up in a garage in the middle of winter? NO ONE! I would run away before letting my parents arrange a marriage for me. If only they could find love like us so they know whether they are soul mates or not.
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