NPR’s All Things Considered talks to AHA Foundation sister organizations Unchained at Last and Tahirih Justice Center about forced marriage in the US. Read and listen here: http://www.npr.org/blogs/goatsandsoda/2015/04/14/399337562/thousands-of-young-women-in-u-s-forced-into-marriage
Washington
Grade: C
Number of Women and Girls At Risk: 25,000
Status: Existing Legislation Needs Strengthening
Improve by adding: Prosecuting parents/guardian, felony offense