It might be a neighbor, acquaintance, or coworker. a buddy, acquaintance, or relative.
According to a World Bank and Save the Children study, 30,000 girls marry every day. That’s 20 girls each minute, or one girl every three seconds. According to Unicef, about 700 million women were married while still underage globally. They are deprived of youth, denied access to education, subjected to early pregnancies, and lose the ability to control their own lives.
You may think that industrialized countries are immune to it, or it may seem far away. But if that happened in New York during the day, what would happen?
It happens all across the world and often. YouTuber Coby Persin made the decision to carry out a social experiment to highlight the problem of child marriage and show why it shouldn’t be ignored.
We won’t see a legitimate child marriage take place. It is important to watch, even though it could be uncomfortable. We need to bring this issue to light and increase awareness of it.
To see how people would react, Coby Persin arranged a fake wedding between a 12-year-old girl and a 65-year-old man.
The experiment was conducted in Times Square in the heart of New York.
Coby took part in the experiment by pretending to be a photographer taking wedding pictures of the 65-year-old and his 12-year-old wife.
They posed while holding hands. He smiled as he looked down at his new bride.
At first, folks simply walked by and stared.
However, people became increasingly furious as the trial went on.
Enraged people approached the two and confronted the man.
One of the women said the youngster was too young and asked where the girl’s mother was.
Some stopped, saying things like “this is crazy,” “you’re a sick pervert,” “this isn’t right,” and “it’s illegal.”
One woman even dragged the girl away from the man after deciding to take matters into her own hands.
There was a tangible tension in the air that seemed ready to blow out.
In New York City, it was considered improper for a young girl to marry an older man. No one should tolerate this anywhere!
