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Topic: Forced marriage parents in England, Wales, N. Ireland face jail under new laws

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Forced marriage parents in England, Wales, N. Ireland face jail under new laws
OP - June 08, 2012, 10:30 AM

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New laws are to be introduced by the home secretary to jail parents who force their children to marry.

Theresa May is due to outline how it will be a criminal offence in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Scotland already has a forced marriage law.

Up to 8,000 young women a year are estimated to be forced into marriages without their consent.

But campaigners warn criminalising forced marriage altogether could deter victims from coming forward.

The new law is expected to distinguish between forced marriages, where there is no consent, and arranged marriages.

A Home Office consultation, which ended in March, was launched at the request of Prime Minister David Cameron, who has said forced marriage is "little more than slavery" and "completely wrong".

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Reply #1 - June 08, 2012, 10:44 AM

Good. Won't stop though until attitudes change amongst those who would perpetrate them. This will help in drawing a line in the sand.

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Reply #2 - June 08, 2012, 11:06 AM

Quote from: billy on June 08, 2012, 10:44 AM
Good. Won't stop though until attitudes change amongst those who would perpetrate them. This will help in drawing a line in the sand.

Yes sir! That's the key.You can't legislate away a social illness. But how do you bring about attitudinal change ?

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Reply #3 - June 13, 2012, 12:02 AM

about time this came into place i wouldve liked a law to ban religion but i highly such a thing will get any serious support for now...

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Reply #4 - June 13, 2012, 07:11 AM

I think this is good, and would actually give girls more confidence, knowing it's lawfully wrong for such behaviour form their parents and could challenge their parents over it/make their parents more fearful of trying to do such a thing....Once there are are one or two examples of the law coming into action, that way they really know what such a law entails.

I can see why it can cause a backfire, when girls don't want their parents to go to jail over it...

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Reply #5 - June 13, 2012, 07:14 AM

This law is fucking LATE!

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