Child Bride; Social Experiment in New York

[drunkenshoe]

Pay attention to the race(s) in the group of people reacting to the scene.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KldFGgUTqKA

[I also didn't know that it is legal for 12 year old girls and 14 year old boys to get married in Massachusetts. I think Texas and Arizona follow with around 13-14.]

[Baruch]

Back in the day, when marriage was about controlling matrilineal property ... child marriage was pretty important.  Not so much these days.  This is why the Pharaoh was always marrying his half-sister ... to keep the royal stuff in the family.

Certainly below the age of consent, or at least no lower than 18 by either party ... would be reasonable.

[mauricio]

Gotta love how "social experiment" now pretty much just means " look at how i try to artificially create a viral video" now considering how shitty some of the social science papers i have read are, this may just be it's natural conclusion lol.

[drunkenshoe]

Back in the day, when marriage was about controlling matrilineal property ... child marriage was pretty important. 

Shhh it never happened in the West.

[mauricio]

[I also didn't know that it is legal for 12 year old girls and 14 year old boys to get married in Massachusetts. I think Texas and Arizona follow with around 13-14.]

Source? Pretty sure all states are 18 and 16 with parental consent. Anything else is corrupt judges making invalid judgements.

[Nonsensei]

Source? Pretty sure all states are 18 and 16 with parental consent. Anything else is corrupt judges making invalid judgements.

No shes right. With parental consent its 12 for girls and 14 for boys. Source is google search for age of marriage in Massachussets.

Strangely, the age of sexual consent in Massachussets is still 16 for females and 18 for males. Not sure how these two laws interact.

[aitm]

Hey it used to be 10 in the late 1800's.

[Nonsensei]

Hey it used to be 10 in the late 1800's.

Kinda like you!

[mauricio]

Kinda like you!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_burn_centers_in_the_United_States

[PickelledEggs]

Kinda like you!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[PickelledEggs]

Gotta love how "social experiment" now pretty much just means " look at how i try to artificially create a viral video" now considering how shitty some of the social science papers i have read are, this may just be it's natural conclusion lol.

This is true. It did let me know (and probably a lot of other people) of this EXTREMELY outdated law that is still active in this country... and New York of all places... would have never expected that.

[Baruch]

They need to drop all the existing laws, and start from scratch.  The FBI is attacking cell phone privacy with a law from George Washington's first term.  The last thing any legislature does, is work for a living.

[mauricio]

This is true. It did let me know (and probably a lot of other people) of this EXTREMELY outdated law that is still active in this country... and New York of all places... would have never expected that.

Yeah i found the law and read it, well the massachusets one. It was like reading english from hundreds of years ago. The law is probably very very old. I hope that like other old laws it is suspect in the eye of reasonable judges or superceded by a federal law. Like in japan you have age of consent at 12 or something in some places but that is superceded by a sort of federal law.

[Sargon The Grape]

Shhh it never happened in the West.

All information about [redacted] has been systematically exterminated from Western knowledge. Any attempt to reveal the truth will result in [DATA EXPUNGED], and those affected are to be administered Class C amnesiacs and kept under observation for 36 hours.

[The Skeletal Atheist]

Pay attention to the race of the people reacting?  Normally I'd agree, but why in this case? They're doing this in an urban setting where minority people are more plentiful, so you'd expect more minority reactions. If this was repeated in a suburban area you'd have more white reactions. The race of the people reacting isn't surprising at all, nor does it matter.