(February 16, 2012 at 10:12 pm)Minimalist Wrote:Quote:The reaction of the girl’s father to the abduction also illustrates the difficulty in trying to change such a deeply rooted cultural practice: he expressed fury that she was abducted because, he said, he had already promised her in marriage to someone else.
What her father did is also another form of abduction. Also, to be fair, the boy who is to marry her is just as much being forced into it as the girl...unless her father promised her to an adult.
