[Sangetsu]

Parents arrange the lives of their children because they care for them. Any parents with common sense raise their children so that the children had a better life than they did. Young people tend to resent this interference, but when they become older they realize that the intentions behind it were good.

As for arranged marriages, why not? So many people marry out of love, and find out later that though they loved each other in the beginning, this love wasn't enough to overcome other differences. In many case, the love vanishes and is replaced by resentment, and even hate.

My girlfriend's grandparents "suffered" an arranged marriage. They had never met each when their parents began talking about arranging the marriage, and were only able to meet a couple times before the marriage took place. They learned to love each other in the years that followed their marriage, which turned out to be happy and prosperous.