RE: Mothers leaving ultra-religious groups, and religious upbringing as a factor in custody disputes

I take it that any attempt to force someone to marry at 13 would be a serious felony in all states; indeed, the column doesn't allege anything like that, and the one Satmar woman whose age was mentioned in the column (the author) was 19 when she married. Rather, the question

Mothers leaving ultra-religious groups, and religious upbringing as a factor in custody disputes

There's an interesting op-ed at http://blog.nj.com/njv_guest_blog/2012/04/among_nj_orthodox_jewish_women.html that faults the child custody law preference for stability of religious upbringing: When women leave arranged marriages in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community -- and leave