@Carlos ********
In the past, the Thai dowry acted as compensation for the family because when a woman left to marry, she lost the ability to support her family. It was believed that women always took care of their parents, so when they left, the parents needed money to support themselves.
Now, the concept of dowry has changed to what I explained earlier. For me, I don’t see anything wrong with it. It’s a tradition that we’ve practiced for a long time. We used to say that divorced women are for foreigners because, in the past, no Thai men would marry a divorced woman.