Pakistan Family Life

Pakistan society is very conservative.

Women dont work.

The ones that come from good families have a university degree, but not to work, but to be able to educate better their kids.

You hardly see women on the street. They are always at home taking care of the children or their parents. They basically only go out for shopping and when they do they always go with mother, brother, father or husband. No fooling around!

A man can only marry when is able to provide the economic support for the wife and the family, as she wont work. So, when someone wants to get married he will tell his parents, sisters and close family for them to find someone for him. In these modern times, adds in the internet and in the newspaper are also used!

So when a suitable candidate is found, the two families will meet, and negociate about the marriage. The brides family will demand that the husband will give some amount of gold to the bride, if anything will go wrong (divorce, death..). Depending on how rich both families are this amount can go up to 1kg of gold!

The husband is expected to have a house or a room (normally the new couple will move into the house of the parents of the husband), and be able to have a good job to satisfy all the needs of the new family. The wife is supose to provide all the material goods (furniture, tv, fridge. In some cases, even a car).

Family is very important in pakistan. People with good job are suppose to look for all the members of the family that are misfortunate. The future wife is suppose to be like a daughter for the parents of the husband and take care of them. As a Pakistan guy told me:

" the 1st duty of the wife is to serve the husband. the 2nd duty of the wife is to serve the husband parents"....

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