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by dragonwriter 1245 days ago
> Arranged marriages worked for generations.

Existed, sure. Whether they “work” or not is... well, for most of history no one was gathering data, but arranged marriage still exists now, and there is evidence linking it to higher rates of suicide, for women particularly.

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Do you have some links? The stuff I found was just correlated, but also had other major issues listed too, like domestic violence.