As recently as a year ago when I wrote about the movie The Quiet Man dowries puzzled me. If a husband (and husband's family) is getting this free labor, shouldn't they be paying money to her family? Bride-price is exactly that, and is the custom in many cultures.
Isn't dowry just a woman getting her inheritance before her parents die then, as she moves off to be part of another family?
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