Mate selection is very important process because it leads to marriage. Marriage provides to fulfill the human basic desires of sexual pleasures and recreation of child. The present paper tries to reveals in the views of the youths i.e. Nursing College Students and their parent’s aspirations in mate selection. In all culture youth wants to set up best mates according to the criteria in their culture. They will usually feel more competent than any other group to make the correct choice. The youth have plenty of  aspirations on their coming mate should have well physical characteristics  such as color, age, height, weight, health, psychological characteristics like intelligence and socio-cultural aspirations such as wealth, region caste etc. The taking and giving may be with references to such things as gender, money, love, pride, submission and sacrifice. They have to faces several individual problems in mate selection like, dowery, physical and mental disorder of the mate.

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Keywords: Mate Selection, Youth Aspirations, Problems of Mate Selection, Sociology of Development and Sociology of Youth.