Arranged marriages are less likely to end in divorce. But is divorce the only yardstick by which we should measure successful partnerships?
Given the obvious family involvement in arranged marriages, family pressure to ensure a non-divorce outcome is likely to be high.
Non-arranged partnerships, on the other hand, family pressure can in fact work the other way in these instances, attempting to break up the partnership which they didn’t sanction.
Not borne out by the statistics many still marry their first cousins.
Most parents are out of tune with their children and their judgment is shrowded by self serving interests.