In my opinion. Dowries and dowries in ancient times. It is based on the system of repudiation. In ancient times, repudiation was a unilateral act of a man. Wives basically have no right to file for divorce. (For details, you can refer to "seven out of three do not go") The woman and the woman's parents in order to make the marriage and family relatively stable. Bring some of them to marry their daughters. If the man wants to divorce his wife, he should also be cautious. Once the wife is divorced, the dowry money is also taken away by the woman. Therefore, dowry can stabilize a woman's position in the in-laws' family.
Now freedom to marry, freedom to divorce. The amount of the dowry has only risen and not decreased under the comparison with each other. And many women marry without a dowry. Then the mother-in-law seems to have found the wealth code. As soon as the bride price is received, it is settled first and then left. Marry again, and the bride price will be received. If it is only a bride price of twenty or thirty thousand. One knot and one departure, busy work, the mother-in-law's income is not very large. But if it is two or three hundred thousand dowries in a small place, it is a lot of money. This profit model is risky and the return is high. The key is still legitimate.
Someone said again, you said that this is a special situation. There are very few mothers who persuade their daughters to divorce in order to earn money. As everyone knows, many in-laws and husbands around me almost knelt on the ground to wipe the ass of their daughters-in-law. Why? Because the daughter-in-law was unhappy, she went back to her mother's house. Marry another one in case you get divorced. Two or three hundred thousand is not a small amount.
The high bride price in the marriage market. On the one hand, it has caused the mother-in-law's family and the young daughter-in-law to have no fear, and to command and act as a blessing in the in-laws' house. It also caused many men to see such an unfortunate life after marriage and were unwilling to get married, and they were afraid that the daughter-in-law who had spent a huge dowry to marry back was divorced in the blink of an eye. On the other hand, for the mother's family, this kind of unearned wealth. It's like a legal marriage robbery. This greatly drives up the cost of non-essential marriage and childbearing. (If buying a house or a car is a necessary cost of marriage and childbearing))
It can be summed up in one sentence. "A man who spends his family's life savings to buy an ancestor to come back to provide for him is either crazy to have a child, or his brain is in the water."
And the reason why the mother-in-law is so fearless. It is nothing more than a psychology of grasping the man. "Aren't you in a hurry to marry your daughter-in-law and have children?" Now buying a daughter-in-law is this market, you are too expensive to buy, naturally there is not too expensive to buy. "The key is that it's worth the money." The more expensive it is to buy, the more the woman who is bought back feels that she is worth money, and the more she will not live a solid life, and the greater the probability of divorce.