[Digalog-admin] Iladelphia and visited a friend there. The reporter o

[Beamon Kissee]

Wedlock--or rather before wedlock--judging by the date of marriage and
that of the first child's birth. All these women were hard working;
several of good standing
in the neighborhood and the mothers of large families of children."
This group of homes represents by no means an unstable segment of the
community, since in most instances
the couples had lived

together in reasonable harmony up to the time of the man's death. But
do
the 96 represent forced marriages as ordinarily thought of by the
social worker? The study

just quoted has no facts bearing upon this point. The likelihood is
that a large number of these marriages, termed forced, were in reality
not brought about by outside pressure at all, but that the couple were
intending to be married at the time the pregnancy occurred and that the
circumstances were condoned by public opinion in the community where
the

marriage took place. The Chicago Juvenile
Protective Association,
however, has made a stud
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