December/January is wedding season in India. In light of the fact that there are more than 100,000 women murdered for dowry in India every year, we are making an advisory post for Brides-To-Be and their families. Please protect yourselves from dowry extortion, violence and murder.
1. Back Out Of Any Wedding Arrangement Where Any Kind of Financial Demand is Made in Cash or Kind:
A gift is something given with love; it is never asked for.
2.But when grooms and their families start specifying how much money they want for the wedding, what kinds of gifts – houses, cars, etc. they want for the wedding, what other favors such as jobs, promotions etc. they want for the wedding, and they threaten to call the wedding off if these ‘gifts’ are not given to them, then this is not gift-giving. This is blackmail! It is illegal! It is extortion! It is a criminal act.
Indian women and their families must think about the morals and social values of such families. If they are criminal extortionists what else are they capable of? The thousands of dowry murders of young brides in India show that these greedy, blackmailing families continue to extort money after the wedding. They inflict terrible violence on the brides, and eventually thousands of young women get murdered by them!!
3.Why should any woman want to get married into such a family? Why should women and their parents pay money to people who blackmail and inflict violence?
Therefore we repeatedly warn all brides-to-be and their families – if the groom’s family asks for anything before, during or after the wedding please take it as a sign of extreme danger!
Get out fast! No matter how far into the wedding preparations you are! Even if it is the wedding day!
1. Back Out Of Any Wedding Arrangement Where Any Kind of Financial Demand is Made in Cash or Kind:
A gift is something given with love; it is never asked for.
2.But when grooms and their families start specifying how much money they want for the wedding, what kinds of gifts – houses, cars, etc. they want for the wedding, what other favors such as jobs, promotions etc. they want for the wedding, and they threaten to call the wedding off if these ‘gifts’ are not given to them, then this is not gift-giving. This is blackmail! It is illegal! It is extortion! It is a criminal act.
Indian women and their families must think about the morals and social values of such families. If they are criminal extortionists what else are they capable of? The thousands of dowry murders of young brides in India show that these greedy, blackmailing families continue to extort money after the wedding. They inflict terrible violence on the brides, and eventually thousands of young women get murdered by them!!
3.Why should any woman want to get married into such a family? Why should women and their parents pay money to people who blackmail and inflict violence?
Therefore we repeatedly warn all brides-to-be and their families – if the groom’s family asks for anything before, during or after the wedding please take it as a sign of extreme danger!
Get out fast! No matter how far into the wedding preparations you are! Even if it is the wedding day!
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