Whether the bride price is given to the parents or the woman can be decided according to local customs. The bride price can be left to the parents, because the bride price is meant to thank the woman's parents for bringing up their daughter for so many years, and according to traditional customs, it is also left to the woman's family. But parents can also give the bride price to their daughters as a private deposit for future needs. It can also be used as start-up funds for new families to help new families.
The bride price for the parents or for the daughter
1. Bride price to parents
The bride price, also known as the "betrothal gift", is the money or things that the man gives to the woman's family before the marriage, which is meant to thank the woman's parents for bringing up their daughter for so many years. Therefore, the bride gift money should belong to the woman's property.
The bride's parents can decide what to do with the money, whether to keep it for their own retirement, give it directly to their daughter, or put a little more as a dowry for the young couple. Either way, that's the girl's parents' business. The bride price is up to the girl's parents.
2. The bride's parents give the bride's money to their daughter as private money
Although the bride price is the betrothal gift of the man to the woman's parents, the woman's parents rarely use the money, most parents will give the bride price to their daughters, and most of them will explain: "You keep this money as your own private money, in case there is a temporary place to use money." In addition, the bride price is given to the woman's parents in social customs, and the parents give it to their daughter only when they feel sorry for their daughter.
3. As start-up capital for a new family
After both men and women set up a new family, there are various expenses, such as the cost of holding a wedding banquet is a lot, some women's parents take care of their daughters and son-in-law, hope that they live better, will be in the bride gift money on the basis of a portion of the money subsidies, returned to the new family, as a small family starting funds.
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