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Forced marriage, child marriage, these are real problems here in the United States and nobody else is paying any attention to this.
逼婚，童婚，這些都是美國現實存在的問題，然而，除了我們，沒有人關注這個問題。
We like to think of the United States as being far advanced when it comes to women's rights and girl's rights,
我們往往覺得美國在保護婦女權利和女孩兒的權利方面已經非常先進了，
but, in the decade 2000 to 2010, almost a quarter of a million children were married in the United States and nobody was talking about this.
然而，2000年至2010年的十年間美國有近25萬名兒童踏入婚姻，卻沒有任何人提及此事。
Child marriage right now is legal in 48 U.S. states. Is that okay? No!
美國有48個州童婚都是合法的。這樣行嗎？不行！
Somebody needed to do something.
總要有人站出來做點兒什么。
I stepped up because I have been through it myself, and I wanted to help.
我站出來是因為我也是受害者，我不希望大家步我的后塵。
I grew up in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community, which is a very insular religious community.
我是在極端重視正統的猶太社區長大，那是一個非常孤立的宗教社區。
I always knew that I would marry young, and it would be a marriage that would be arranged for me.
我一直都知道我很小就要嫁人，也知道我的婚姻會由家長包辦。
I was a clueless 19-year-old.
那時我才19歲，什么都不懂。
I was so happy on my wedding day.
婚禮那天我高興極了。
I was doing everything that I had always been told I wanted to do,
一切我都是按照大人們教導的那樣做的，
and then it took exactly one week for that all to come crashing down.
然而，僅僅一周，我的世界就開始崩塌了。
My then husband flew into this, you know, violent rage, and then he threatened to kill me for the first time.
我那個時候的丈夫突然就會大發脾氣，那是他第一次威脅說要弄死我。
It was a reality check for me.
這對我來說是一次現實的檢驗。
You know, it's painful but, you know, the pain you go through is part of what makes you who you are.
當時我很痛苦，但正是曾經的痛苦造就了現在的我們不是嗎。
I finally put a plan in place to get out when I was 27 because at that point things had gotten so bad.
終于，27歲那年，我實行了我預謀已久的逃跑計劃，因為那時我的日子已經完全過不下去了。
So it was a five year escape plan.
那個計劃花了我五年的時間。
It was terrifying and so lonely, and there was no one who supported me.
過程非常可怕，也無比孤單，因為沒有一個人支持我幫我。
Everyone I knew had declared me dead.
我認識的所有人都說我已經死了。
And everyone in the outside world could not possibly understand this process that I was going through;
外面也沒有一個人能理解我當時的經歷;
but, I got divorced, and I was able to rebuild my life from scratch.
不過好在我離婚了，我能夠從頭開始，開啟新的人生。
