The Europe News website reports today (November 14, 2011) that more than 3,000 women and girls in Germany -- mostly from Muslim families -- faced forced marriage in the course of a year, according to official research released today.
The first federal study of its kind found 3,443 recorded cases in 2008 -- the most recent year with sufficient data -- in which people living in Germany were forced to wed or threatened with a forced marriage.
Most were between the ages of 18 and 21, but a third of them were under the age of 17.
Almost all were female and children of staunchly religious immigrant families.
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