Well... yes? I mean isn't this pretty much the feature of a dating app. I mean you still choose to go on the first date but you're there because you want the algorithm to curate your matches, right?
> Alice and Bob are both bachelor and could start a family. Time for them to meet.
If you want your community to grow you have to resort to this. If not, don't come complaining when most of your male population starts enjoying their life while cat ladies resent them.
Isn't that what any community does? If you know two people who might be a good match, then you might suggest it. It happened in college, at work, at temples, etc.
That's not an arranged marriage, it's an arranged pool of potential dates.
Same as how if you're on tinder, you're not going to magically swipe to a person not on Tinder.
It just so happens there's someone saying "This person isn't allowed to sign up for Tinder, they're emotionally scarred". Which will probably scar them more.
You're thinking of "forced marriage", which is a subset of arranged marriages.
There are arranged marriages where parents play the role of matchmaker and chaperones, with the kids having veto power. Or the converse, where the kids select partners from a professional matchmaker's rolls and the parents have veto power.
Right. All the arranged marriages I'm aware of were ones where the expected norm was for the children to acquiesce to the arrangement, but didn't force them to accept. They did so either to honor their parent's selection (or that of the matchmaker hired by the parents).
I also have colleagues that have declined the arranged matches. Their parents weren't happy, but they did it all the same.
