Legal Question in Family Law in Kansas

Hello, my muslim friend is 18 years old and has been in a relationship with a muslim girl who is 16 but and about to turn 17, my friend has been seeing this girl for almost a year and a half behind the muslim girl's parents back (I was not told the details but I do know there was sexual contact made in a legal context of the state of Kansas) The parents of the girl forbid the girl to date my friend.

I have two legal concerns for my friend and his situation

1. Without knowledge of the relationship existing, I was told that the girl's father threatened to take the girl out of high school if it was discovered that she was involved in a sexual relationship, is this legally possible?

2. In what context would the girl have to be in to have social services become involved? I have known the families of both the girl and my friend for years and am familiar with their personalities and their parents behavior. I have also seen situations like this before as I grew up in a non-religious middle eastern family. I imagine that if the girl is to be discovered in a relationship with my friend that her parents would only allow her to go to school, take away all forms of communication from her and monitor her every move until she turns 18. Obviously I think the unbiased perception of this circumstance is that there would be nothing illegal going on. The problem persists on how the girl would react. Although the girl is usually more respectful to her parents than the average American, the girl would most likely hold extreme resentment of the parents and not leave her room with the exception of going to and from school. This obviously would cause a very unstable situation in their household. In order to elaborate on how unstable the situation would be I must say that I have heard stories of her father calling her a "slut" and "whore" for a comment she had made about Taylor Latnor of twilight. I don't know what she said but knowing her father's unwesternized opinion about how women should behave I doubt it was vulgar at all. However and fortunately I also doubt that there would be any physical abuse. Finally I doubt very highly that the parents would use a therapist to intervene in the situation, and knowing the girl I doubt she would not go to a school counselor, is there anything that the law can do to save this girl from going throw a living hell in the situation that they would find out about her relationship?

Thank you

-Massih

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