➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway
US: Girls in White Dresses
Ms. Magazine – October 31, 2017
When people in this country think of child marriage, their imaginations turn to images of child brides thousands of miles away, in West Africa or South Asia. They rarely think of the South Bronx or California. And yet, the Tahirih Justice Center, an immigrants-rights organization that has led the fight against forced marriage in this country, reports that between 2009 and 2011 the U.S. saw as many as 3,000 known or suspected cases of forced marriage, many involving girls younger than 18.
http://msmagazine.com/blog/2017/10/31/girls-white-dresses/