Reply #15: I think you misread [View All]

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I'm saying I've seen worse things and similar things - and probably in their minds allowing your daughter to be kidnapped isn't as bad as outright murdering her, unlike your suggestion. Somebody who couldn't get a dowered bride gets married and someone who couldn't afford a dowery gets off the hook.

I suspect it happens. That's all. An observation, not a position statement. Of course I find it deplorable, as I find having to defend myself to your challenge on this deplorable.

Perhaps you should have worded it differently too. :Outraged-I-tellya:

:)