Why is there a decline in the role of parents in deciding their children's marriage?

What will be an ideal response?


One reason for the declining role of parents over the years is that kinship is less important in modern societies, and one's kin, including one's parents, have considerably fewer stakes in who marries whom. A second reason is that children have a greater degree of economic independence from their parents in industrial societies, and parents therefore have less leverage with which to demand a say in the choice of a marriage partner.

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