Forced marriage, divorce, and the ecology of marital self-determination: findings from research with Orthodox Jews in New York
• Research with Orthodox (Charedi) Jews illustrates barriers to divorce as a type of forced marriage • These barriers span the ecological model, from the intrapsychic to policy and history levels • Constrained access to divorce is not captured by current global or US forced marriage definitions.
Authors
- Jessie VanNess Ford (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9426-3351)
- Fraidy Reiss (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7563-0988)
- Jennifer S. Hirsch
- Alicia Jen
- Jessica Weissman
- Aarushi H. Shah (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6498-7228)
- Gloria Fortuna
Institutions
- Unchained Labs (United States) (US)
- Columbia University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- SSM - Mental Health
- Published
- 2025-12-20
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmmh.2025.100584
- Primary Topic
- Jewish Identity and Society
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00