Billy III

A chat about Kenyan marathons VS ours

Parents are failing young marriages. Many people keep asking why young people are delaying marriage, but the answer is not that they are uninterested in marriage. The problem is that the cost of getting married in Uganda has become ridiculously high. By Ugandan standards, a young man from a poor family, which represents the reality for the majority of Ugandans, who is lucky enough to graduate with a degree at 23 may spend the next five years or more on the streets looking for a job. If he is lucky enough to secure a meaningful job at 27 or 28, he will probably earn 1M, 1.5M or 2M a month. Remember, this young man has a family to support. Now that he is earning, he is expected to contribute to his family's wellbeing, support his parents and help his siblings. He may spend the next ten years trying to improve life back home on top of his personal bills. By the time he starts thinking about serious investments and building reasonable savings for his own future, he could be approaching 40. Now, imagine that this young man meets the love of his life and decides to settle down. He is expected to pay dowry worth at least 15M and organise a wedding costing no less than 50M. Anything less, and some families will not allow their daughter to start a family with him. What kind of nonsense is that? How do you expect a young man with such a background to raise 70M? Where is he supposed to get that money? And even if he manages to raise it, what will be left for the young couple to build their future? Parents are setting up young couples to begin their marriages with endless loans, rent struggles, financial pressure and constant disagreements arising from economic hardship? Parents, if your daughter finds a good young man who loves, respects and treasures her, why make it difficult for him to marry her? Why should material become a condition for love and marriage? Are your daughters businesses that must be acquired at a certain price? Is the dowry going to make you suddenly wealthy? And is an expensive wedding a guarantee that your daughter's marriage will last? Let dowry be for those who can ably afford it. Let love be the determinant fkr marriage and not how much one can afford. Eventually, when your sons and daughters are not getting married, you run to churches and shrines hunting for devine intervention yet you're the problems 🙌

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