Re: Jahez- Dowry
dowry is given a lot of importance.
the show off of all the material gifts gold, property, car, or even cash in marriages is unsightly.
gift giving in the sense of providing essential material things to help start up the house of the new couple idea is one thing, but to expect a female's family or her self to bring along wealth and material comforts is in fact a reflection of how greedy the boy or the boy's family can be and how ignorant.
so, we are only as ethical as we do. if we want this tradition of ignominy to go way, we all need to begin implementing the change effect.
every boy for his sister and every father for his daughter, should do no more than is a simple celebration of the women's wedding.
a simple wedding dinner, her self's better character & her modest and education graceful thinking and actions are the best wealth anyone can ever imagine to get.
same for women. parents of women or women themselves who put a monetary value on the man's self, in terms of his wealthiness are really not thinking.
in a committted relationship, anticipated dowries should not be the basis of getting sons married.