Love Marriage: Community Perception and Satisfaction in Large Urban Centres of Central Punjab, Pakistan

Marriage is a socially accepted sexual union between a male and a female in which women children are recognized as a legitimate offspring’s of the couple. When two individuals marry because they both love and understand each other, then it is called love marriage. In Pakistan due to social and cultural conventions, some families are adamantly against such relationships, while others may be sympathetic. The research was quantitative in nature. Multistage sampling technique was used in the study. From large three Urban Centres Lahore was selected randomly. One municipal town was selected from Lahore which was Nishtar town. From this one union council namely Kahna Nau was selected randomly. 382 households were selected through systematic random sampling technique. For the collection of data Pre-coded interview schedule was used. The data was collected from the head of the household. The inferential tests were applied on the data. Which were Chi-square test, Yeh’s Index of Perception and Yeh’s index of Satisfaction. The value of chi square was 0.456 and 0.324. The value of Yeh’s Index of perception test was 0.376 while Yeh’s index of Satisfaction was 0.3647. Results indicates that a minor percentage of the people were perceived better and satisfied from love marriage.