Marriages partly or entirely brokered by parents and other family members remain the norm for many traditional South Asian families at home and abroad, who view leaving matrimony to chance as asking for trouble.
For millions of South Asians and others, matrimonial websites have replaced traditional local matchmakers, allowing families and their sons and daughters to enter their details and wants, and find suitable matches from around the world.
Academics say 90 percent of those on some such South Asian websites are parents seeking eligible matches for children, and the entry matching Farook's profile says his parents posted it.
Other details on the site also match Farook: the profile name; the hometown of Riverside, California; the Muslim religion; and the job — "I work for county as health, safety and envorimental (sic) inspector."
Written in the first person, the profile says one of Farook's favorite things to do is "just hang out in back yard doing target pratice (sic) with younger sister and friends."
