prearranged marriages

The traditional marriage role models that have been with us for several thousand years, with little change until recent years, have been based on the feudal fiefdom: the husband is the lord and the wife and children are serfs and vassels.
For thousands of years, women were permitted no rights, and were even bought and sold like chattle. Marrying for love was taboo and falling in love was a disgusting thing permitted only to the peasants. If a woman of nobility fell in love, she faced dire consequences. In some countries, Like Saudi Arabia, they still do.
Marriages were usually arrainged to serve the political or financial advantage of the parents. Some of the old traditions and superstitions of marriage were created with...