Chinese woman attempts to commit suicide after being forced into arranged marriage for the sake of finding her brother a wife
Woman, abandoned at birth and raised by foster parents, entered into deal in which she married a much older man so her brother could marry his sister
A woman in western China’s Gansu province attempted suicide after entering an arranged marriage in return for getting her impoverished foster brother a wife, the Lanzhou Morning Post reports.
The woman, 20, said she married a man she barely knew last December in exchange for the marriage of her foster brother to her husband’s sister, the paper reported yesterday.
The woman said she was forced to marry the man who is 10 years her senior by her foster brother, who wanted the marriage deal but was too poor to get a wife otherwise.
The woman was deserted by her parents at birth and brought up by her foster family in the countryside.
She told the newspaper that she had to leave her boyfriend in the city where she had been a migrant worker and return to her hometown to get married.
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The woman attempted to kill herself shortly after the marriage and told the newspaper that the very sight of her husband “made her sick.”
