| Where is the dividing line between a forced and an arranged marriage?
I see the division as something like this. The girl is told that she has to marry a certain person, that she has no choice in the matter; she puts up a hell of a fight so that on her wedding day no one let's her go out; when it's time to say the "I dos" and even though she says nothing at all and or refuses to sign the contract she's literally forced to; either by someone taking her forcibly by the hand and or she's threatened in someway. Let's take the same scenario; keep the beginning. But, when it comes to the wedding day she agrees to it despite the fact that she's been threatened. It's a very thin fine line, unless I feel and believe that physical force has been used and or she, forgot to mention it, was drugged; other than that how is it going to be proved; she'll need marks of some kind, the paper to show the stress in her hand writing; had her contract been signed, of course, if any was used; her signature would be relaxed as strained when forced..
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