The article "Marriages made in hell" from Nadeem Badshah out of the magazine "the guardian (UK)" talks about the increasing problem with forced marriages to young women and now also men. The few victims who made a signal for help refused to the tradition that they should have continued in their families, which is all about to protect the honor of the family.
The men victims are usually gay or in compare to the "normal men" different, so they get forced into marriages so the society does not realize that there is an "exception” in their family. Support services try to help the victims to refuse to the old traditions with booklets for example on concerts that are especially for the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transsexual society. The increasing number of men in forced marriages is drastic, so now the support services have to start to make a development to help the men like they increased their ad with women. The services are bound to not act to harsh because they have to await the worst situation; relatives murder the victim etc.
All in all the society should not forget about the male victims in forced marriages because in the present situation it is harder for the men to refuse against the will of their relatives than for the women who momentary get more support from the services than the men do. The law should be stricter with punishments for the relatives so they think twice if they put their own son or daughter in a marriage of hell against their will just to protect their honor.
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