Study: Thousands Of Immigrant Women Forced Into Marriage : NPR: Girls can be forced to marry someone here, or sent back to their parents' home country to marry someone there. If the girl is a U.S. citizen, she may be forced into a marriage to sponsor someone for a U.S. visa. Communities keep these unions highly secret. And social workers and others are not good at reading the signs that a forced marriage is in the works.
Was there a trip back home recently? Has there been some money exchanged in terms of dowry? Is she all of a sudden not thinking about her next year of school? Even if advocates do know what's up, there's little they can do to stop something that is not illegal.
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