Should we protect a 16-year-old girl from being pressured to marry a man more than three times her age?
Believe it or not, this still happens in New Jersey. Girls are coerced by relatives to wed older men for religious reasons, or because the groom wants a green card.
They often drop out of school, fall victim to domestic abuse and can't escape, because most shelters don't accept anyone under age 18.
Fatima, a New Jersey woman forced to marry at age 15 by strict Muslim parents in Brooklyn, recounted to the New York Times last year how she lied to a judge and claimed she wanted to marry her cousin.