I stumbled across a very strange website today: MarryOurDaughter(dot)com.It is a site where people can purchase teenage brides!!!!! Parents supposedly post information about their children and then present a cost for the marriage. Prices range from $5,000 to $70,000.
Here's a testimonial:
"Our 15 year old daughter Mary wasn't very popular and did nothing but mope around the house bringing everybody down, so we decided to marry her off through your site. Now our house is a lot cheerier and we love our new swimming pool and Jaccuzi! We've told our youngest that when she turns 15 we're going to marry her off too!"
Gross and wrong!
Before you get too excited boys, the site is a fake. The person who created the site fessed up to a New York Times' blog:
"Contacted through MarryOurDaughter this morning, Mr. Ordover quickly conceded the page was a parody aimed at drawing attention to inconsistencies in state marriage laws. States consider it a crime for adults to have sex with minors, but they allow kids as young as 12 to get married with parental and sometime judicial permission" (http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2007/09/12/marry-our-daughter-just-a-hoax).
I wonder how many guys tried to buy brides before finding out the site was a fake......
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