Arranged marriages should be banned Arranged marriages should be banned because (1) it deprives the individual his/her opportunity to freely choose his/her partner and that (2) the couple would be the one enduring the hardships from something that was only decided for them, (3) the marriage was established without the assurance of compatibility between the couple, (5) it gives the idea that marriage is similar to a bargaining process to ensure stability and impose the familys interests and lastly (4) arranged marriages greatly pressures the individual psychologically and emotionally because he/she has to make a choice between his/her own happiness or the will of his/her parents.http://dbp.idebate.org/en/index.php/Debate:_Arranged_marriagehttp://www.debate.org/opinions/should-arranged-marriages-be-outlawed