Arranged marriage is the idea that marriages should be arranged by parents or other family members. This is acceptable in some parts of the world, but for others it is completely out of the question. If choosing our partner for life is our most basic right as an individual, then why are arranged marriages still enforced in other nations? Arranged marriages should not be enforced due to the violation of the rights and freedom of a woman and a man, the boundaries it creates to diversity and the consequences of illiteracy and lack of education for women. The idea of ​​imposing an arranged marriage causes problems with feminists. Because the procedures involved in arranging marriages lead to differences in the autonomy with which individual women can choose their own spouses, such procedures must be examined from a feminist perspective (Yalom and Carstensen 214). Arranged marriages test a woman's ability to be independent and choose her own spouse. These types of marriages give women an unfair share of their self-determination. According to Yalom and Carstensen, arranged marriages could pose a particular problem if (1) they are arranged with less input from women than men; (2) produce power injustices between women and men; and (3) are integral to a range of other practices that reflect and maintain women's lower social status, enabling the treatment of women as commodities or property. All this is true because in many parts of the Middle Eastern world, parents or family members choose the mate for the female. The inequality of power between women and men is very evident in these arranged marriages. Husbands were usually required to be rich, educated, successful and of high social standing... middle of paper... in today's modern society we can see that arranged marriages have become less of a coercion from parents but they exist Still. Who says these enhanced "assisted" arranged marriages won't have the same effects as traditional arranged marriages? Works Cited Alvarez, Lizette. “Arranged marriages are being rearranged a bit.” The New York Times June 22, 2003: n. page Print.Farr, Diane. “Bringing home the wrong breed.” The New York Times June 3, 2011: 6. Web.Gupta, Giri Raj. “Love, Arranged Marriage, and Indian Social Structure.” Journal of Comparative Family Studies 7.1 (1976): 75-85. JSTOR. Network. May 22, 2014. .Yalom, Marilyn, and Laura L. Carstensen. Inside the American couple: new ideas/new challenges. Berkeley: University of California, 2002. Print.