(March 5, 2015 at 12:39 pm)robvalue Wrote: What an utter complete load of bollocks. These people are messed up in the head. I had no idea this kind of thing was going on among christians.
To be fair, this extreme thinking if found mainly among fundamentalists but it is still weird that people in a modern western country encourage fathers' to actively find a spouse for their daughters without much input from her. I've read some sites where the girl was not even told the man expressed interest until after the dad decided they could get married. The writers of those sites usually assure their readers that the daughters can say no to the suitor but she really hasn't been taught to think for herself.
Courtship is popular among some conservative Christians but it isn't really arranged marriage. They believe that courtship is dating that leads to marriage so casual dating just for fun is discouraged. The dad has less control in this type of courtship. The conservatives in the US seem to actively court crazy so I have no idea if this will become popular among them but it isn't out of the realm of possibility.
