Maybe Nozdormu would just prevent any TimeBank usage ? And as far as Disconnects , I ' m not really sure . Perhaps it would give them a full 6090 seconds to reconnect , without using their Time Bank of course . <| sep |> Of course this requires billions and billions of dollars redistributed from 1 st world countries to them . And , as is to be expected , a significant portion of this transfer will be raked off by corrupt bureaucrats and politicos on the way . <| sep |> My feelings towards all the dirtsheets . <| sep |> If girls ' parent give the girl child her fair share of paternal property , there would be no need of dowry . Just saying . Blame selfish parents of girl child . They don ' t want to give share to the female child , who will not take care of them when they get old . You are right about that . All this dowry thing is prevalent because people don ' t treat their girl and boy child equally . It is because the girl child leaves you when she is married and the boy gets a wife who comes and serves you in your old days . Some ways to solve this problem 1 Equal rights for girls and boys in paternal property . This should be by default and the girl would have to explicitly take an undertaking if she wants none of her paternal property . Right now I think if they do not claim , everyone is fine . Most often unless they hate their brothers they don ' t claim because ' society '. 2 Educate your girl child . If your daughter is educated and holds a job she is not dependent on anyone to provide for her . You don ' t need to find a groom for her . Allow her to find a groom if she desires or take her wish into consideration if she is fine with you picking one for her . There is a very good chance that prospective brides and their family would not demand or demand less dowry just because this woman is going to be a source of income for the family . It will be out of pure greed and yet solve the problem . 3 And most important . Somehow if it was possible for people to move away from their parents after marriage . But this is a huge issue . One thing better about our culture is that old people are not left to fend for themselves or sent to old age homes . Even if you think sending to old age homes is fine , there is the problem of money . We are a poor country , we can ' t afford that . The logistics of it is very messy .