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The Reality of Child Marriage in Oregon

Presentation over Zoom by Fraidy Reiss, a forced-marriage survivor and founder of “Unchained At Last”, an organization seeking to end child marriage. Outdated laws have allowed child marriage at an alarming rate: Thousads of minors were entered into marriage in Oregon over the last two decades -- mostly girls wed to adult men, with an age difference that would be considered a sex crime outside of marriage. Fraidy Reiss was 19 when she was forced to marry a stranger who turned out to be violent. Her research and writing on forced marriage and child marriage have been published extensively.

 

Sunday, January 19, 2025 - 10:00am