Why is the bride price getting more and more expensive?

1, the most important and obvious thing is the growth of local economy. Economic growth has driven up prices, just like when I was a child, I only needed 50 cents to buy ice cream, but now I have to spend a few dollars or even a dozen or twenty dollars to buy it again, not to mention other things. So do you think this bride price can not go up?

2. There is a serious imbalance between men and women. Although equality between men and women is now emphasized, the patriarchal ideology that has been passed down for so long cannot be eliminated in a short time. There are more unmarried men than women, which leads to more opportunities for women to choose. As a man, especially his parents, in order to let his son get married as soon as possible, he even has to bear a high bride price.

3, the comparison of bride price is getting worse and worse. It is not difficult to see from the frequent high-priced bride price incidents in recent years that the bride price has become more and more vulgar and has become a bad habit. Originally, under the pressure of high housing prices, sometimes marriage needs to empty six wallets at home, and for the sake of so-called face, it needs to empty the wallets of another or even a generation. What is the significance of this marriage?

Although the current phenomenon of sky-high bride price exposes unreasonable places everywhere on the surface, there is actually a reasonable side behind it.

(1) The bride price is high, which reduces the divorce rate. Paying high-priced bride price increases the cost of marriage, making men with poor family conditions or low personal income more rigorous, objective and stable towards marriage.

(2) Improve the efficiency of blind date and promote the allocation of marriage resources. Marriage is not a temporary idea, it needs long-term running-in of both sides' personalities and viewpoints. However, as the simplest quantifiable tool in a short period of time, bride price can help both parties to screen out the other half that meets their own requirements, or accept the amount of bride price, or be dissatisfied with the amount given, and find the next more matching object. This greatly improves the efficiency of blind date and realizes the rational allocation of resources faster.

(3) Improve the status of women and pay more attention to women to some extent. Many times parents will worry that if they don't accept the bride price, the woman will be despised by her husband's family after marriage, so the amount of the bride price will increase; The husband's family will also pay more attention to married women because of the high bride price, which can solve the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law to some extent.

In my opinion, it is necessary for two people to give a bride price, but we should do what we can. Is it rare to see all kinds of love, hate and hatred that are usually staged because of the bride price? The significance of marriage and family formation is not to pay bride price and dowry. Never let two people's marriage become a "buyer and seller" or something like that.