aranged marriage

In many countries and cultures arranged marriage is how they have always done it. They believe that marriage leads to love. In the U.S.  We believe that you fall in love and then you get married. It’s pretty interesting when you actually think about it. In the U.S. our divorce rates are crazy. Each year more and more people are getting divorced. In other countries like India and Africa they can’t understand why we are still doing marriage the way we are when we can see that a lot of our marriages are failing. How other countries do it is the parents find the person they want their child to be with. They find a person who was raised on the same morals, has a personality that would fit their child, they have things in common, they have money to support a family, same goals ext. they make sure that their children will be compatible with this person for a life time. Not just short term like us where we fall in love with who that person is currently and expect them to always be the same. That’s not very realistic. They’re marriages work because they find people who will grow and change together and have similarities and goals that will keep them together forever. I personally want to be able to fall in love and then get married and I hope that the person I marry is going to have the same long term goals as me so we don’t fall apart. But I do understand the concept of arranged marriage. It does make sense to me. People with arranged marriages do have lower divorce rates and end up falling in love with that person over time and end up extremely happy together. I don’t think arranged marriage is a bad method.