Dowry : A crime or the right of the girl ?
Whenever we talk about dowry, we talk about the evils that it has brought in to the society. To solve the problems it has created, we must deep dive into it's origin and how it got en-rooted in our culture. For that we first need to see our social structure and its historical background. Composition of family : At the basic level we can say that a family has mother, father , sons and daughters. Then there can be joint families staying together. As a family it has ancestral house, properties, farm land, business, gold and other assets. We have culture in our society where sons stay with the parents forever while daughters move to the house of in-laws after the marriage. This leads to certain discriminatory situation where assets that belongs to parents and ancestors remains with the sons and he enjoys it all along his life while depriving the daughters of their equal rights in...