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Friday, June 16, 2006 12:00 AM

Should governments criminalize forced marriage?

A British Op-Ed says the failure to ban the practice is a betrayal of Asian women.
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  • Friday, June 16, 2006 04:51 PM

    Duh.

    Yes.

    Why do we have to agonize about this? Unfair cultural bias is making girls take their headscarves off in French schools. If believing that free will trumps cultural tradition every time makes me culturally biased, I'm soooo sorry.

    —Marianna Trench Read Marianna Trench's other letters

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