New Yorkers Are Shocked By Child Bride Social Experiment

If you’ve ever been to the Big Apple, you know that you can find just about anyone and anything on the big city’s streets, but what would you do if you encountered a child in an upsetting situation?

YouTube prankster and social experimenter extraordinaire Coby Persin decided to test hundreds of unknowing people in Times Square, with a scene that would horrify even the most jaded New Yorker.

In the following video, we see a senior man and a little girl that looks like she could be his granddaughter, only the 65-year-old and 12-year-old are dressed in a tuxedo and wedding gown, preparing to tie the knot.

Needless to say, the social experiment‘s May-December couple got more than a few looks during the wedding photo shoot at the Crossroads of the World, and the creepy groom even got a few choice words from some very disturbed onlookers.

However, the most shocking part of this viral video might just be that although child brides seem like a thing of the past, girls as young as 6 years old are being stripped of their youth and forced into marriage in more than 90 countries around the world.

And worst of all some U.S. states like New Jersey allow children to marry with judicial approval. “A judge in 2006 approved the marriage of a 10-year-old boy to an 18-year-old woman. A judge in 1996 allowed a 12-year-old girl to marry a 25-year-old man.” wrote the New York Times last October about the little-known child marriage problem right here in the states.

Thankfully, there are organizations like Unchained At Last, which help young people escape their forced, often abusive marriages and help to put an end to this growing problem.

You can help spread awareness to this growing problem, too – SHARE this video with your friends on Facebook today and together we can fight to give kids their childhood back.

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New Yorkers Are Shocked By Child Bride Social Experiment is an article from: LifeDaily