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To some of us "family values" is simply having parents that love and take care of their children and try to ensure a good future for them.
The details of how it happens don't matter as much as just raising the children to be respectful and productive. So it doesn't matter if it is India or the US.
And to some it's not. I mean, the Ancient Greeks would look favourably on their (by contemporary standards) underage male child becoming involved, physically, with an accomplished older male as a sort of mentor/lover. They would have said "We support this because we love our child and him having this relationship is the best way to care for him and ensure a good future for him." Something tells me that wouldn't fly today if the child still ended up being "respectful or productive."
That's an extreme case but... India? Well, child marriages, arranged marriages - those fly in the face of many American/Western family values. To say "the details of how it happens don't matter" is taking a very narrow view of the phenomenon.