Talk:Bride buying in India

Angiek12 (talk) 23:54, 22 August 2017 (UTC)

Unreliable stats
The article cites a study from a reliable secondary source which mentions an obscure primary sources to claims that 90% (9000 out of 10,000 households) had molki wives. This through-the-roof inflated figure defies the commonsense. A better qualifies of such stat (e.g. perhaps thsoe 10,000 households were not the representative samples of haryana population, rather being targetted/suspected molkihouseholds from lower socio-economic strata, etc) or a better more relaistic stat is needed. Thanks. 222.164.212.168 (talk) 06:42, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

Please move the article namespace
Article has multiple issues, other editors had inserted tags on top regarding those issues. I undertook major edits to eliminate those issues. This phenomenon is not limited to Haryana, but common across North India. Study by Norwegian Embassy has indicated brides are "arranged for marriage" in 4 ways. "trafficking for forced marriages does happen but it is rare, and when it happens victims rarely report it, and cartels are hard to catch and break. Current namespace is misleading, because the phenomenon of "buying plus selling" covers whole India, and most molki women are NOT TRAFFICKED but "arranged" by "selling bride through reverse dowry" instead of the usual Indian practice of "buying the groom through dowry". Please rename the article namespace to Bride buying in India. Thanks. 58.182.172.95 (talk) 09:20, 30 November 2019 (UTC)

Further improvements still needed:

1. Among the "brides bought" add two subsections to draw distinction between those "arranged" vs "trafficked". Add statistics of trafficked women.

2. Expand "disadvantage" subsection with more sources, regarding plight of molki, including those who were "trafficked" and those who were "arranged but not trafficked". Even the later face the discrimination.

3. Add a section on "Future actions" as demanded by activists/NGOs to address issues of molki brides.

4. Add a section on "NGOs an self-help groups" dealing with this issue.

Thank you. 58.182.172.95 (talk) 09:59, 30 November 2019 (UTC)