In India, there is very bad practice of taking dowry from girls and also people start giving a lot to her in-laws just to keep them happy. But this raises their expectations and they keep on demanding more and more and when these demands are not fulfilled they start torturing the girl. It is our duty to stop this malpractice.

There is so much of this in India, and i really don't understand why!

When i was in UK i only kind of saw this happen in films, but since in India, i have seen so many news stories on tv and read things in the paper about this, and many girls also either get tortured or some commit suicide, which is very bad!

THe main reason of thses ill practices being done in India is illetracy and for the people who are literate and yet involved, only shamelessness and greed are the reasons. There is a common tendency to thik that women are just commodities to be traded and perish.

I see that sometimes it is a traditional of giving dowry when a girl gets married, but sometimes its a demand from the in laws. In western countries its not such an issue but in place like Pakistan, India, Bangladesh its common.

My roots being from Pakistan is can tell you that dowry is common there too, but only to some extent i think that its more common and demanded in less educated families, as sometimes well to do families also demand dowry from the girls family too.

How terrible! This is indeed a very bad tradition... How do people do this? Don't they have any feelings for their married children? Why do something like that to your son's wife?

Dowries as a form of a religious tradition is nt that bad per se! Its the thought attached to it and its giving is what makes the dowry such in a negative notion. It has to be a matter of setting the proper education on this thing which would set the proper perspective especially in places where this is wrongly practiced.

I'm not familiar with this practice, because from where I came from (philippines) very few cultural minorities practice this. Setting aside religious belief and speaking as a woman, I think this is an unfair practice. I think this is degrading to the woman because her value as person is considered equal only to the value of dowry she could provide.

I thought dowries are given at one time. Only before the wedding. I didn't know that they could make demands after the wedding.

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