Regarding modern forced marriages in “the West”, I can't even comment on my daughters’ loser boyfriends without getting “the look”!
I was aware of “arranged marriages” going back to Solomon's time, and it has been a constant of familial action and foreign policy amongst the ruling class since ... well, very early on in the history of man.
Occasionally such arranged marriages produced happiness.
Personally, I appreciated Mercat’s observations as a recovering divorce attorney, and will look up the historical novels of Cadfael.
Of course, all of BO's ridiculous equivalencies are solely used to forward an agenda identical to the Godless Communists of my parents.
Ok this made me laugh
‘”, I can’t even comment on my daughters’ loser boyfriends without getting “the look”!”
But I do get your point now.
ginger