Runaway Grooms..

You'll may mistake this title with the Hollywood movie Runaway Bride but you would be seriously mistaken as there is no fairytale ending to these stories. In this there is only heartache, pain, shame and not only a loss of a huge amount of money, but also of your standings in your society. Many Indian women fall victim to this, they get married to a British Indian Citizen and after he gets what he wants from her and her family they head back to the UK while their new brides are left waiting and hoping that one day he will return. It is not only confined to the UK as it also occurs in the US an Canada, although not always reported.

A wedding is a moment of celebration and many families will spare no expense to make sure the day is perfect, now this may not be such a hard event to put together for the like of you and I from the UK, but for a struggling family in living through hardship everyday, this would mean something between 6 months wages to your life savings. Least we forget, many Indians still participate in the tradition of giving a dowry. A dowry is the payment of cash or other forms of gift given to the bridegroom's family along with the bride,this practice has led to a rise in female infanticide and sex selective abortion which has thus led to it becoming an outlawed practice, however it is still practiced and has lead to a large amount of people living in poverty.

But getting back to my original point, new brides are often used for sexual pleasures and then abandoned, they are left with the realisation that they have been used and also that they cannot remarry because of years of tradition but also because people in India and other Asian parts of the world frown upon the idea of getting a divorce, so they are then left in a state of marriage limbo" and have no way out,there are at least 15-20,00 Indian brides that have been abandoned by their British husbands, this is an unacceptable amount of people left shattered and duped into thinking their lives were getting better only to realise that the worse is yet to come..It is just another form of exploitation and like exploitation it SHOULD BE STOPPED.