Interesting read on approved marriages and parental consent
A few members of my family have recently got engaged and married. I’ve also seen a program recently too about arranged marriages and legal age for people to get married. It was all very interesting and i thought as a old chap i do actually quite like the idea of these parental approval marriage arrangements were the parents need to give their permission for one of the children to get married. Seems like a silly thing to say but experience counts for a lot and i look back through our family and at divorces and other problems that may have been avoided if the people involved were not allowed to marry. I know a lot of people will not agree with the parental assessment part but i think some religions have the right idea by pre arranging marriages. I don’t think it will ever be a system that adopted over here but i think it should e considered. I think the parents are sometimes the best people to decide what is best for their children especially some of these kids are getting married when they are still teenagers! in some cases im sure it all works out but im willing to bet the majority of cases end in divorce and ultimately kids are involved and then we have a split family. Cases like this would be avoided if the parents had some kind of say about their children marrying. I know my children would never come and ask if they could get married because its not a tradition they are familiar with but its nice to think they may want their parents opinions about the decision to marry.
