This is disturbing and pretty funny. It's a website where people can sell their daughters "according to the biblical principle of arranged marriage and bride prices."
It goes to great lengths to clarify that most states let you marry 13-year-old girls with parental consent.
Surely this has to be a gag, right?
UPDATE: Thanks to my cousin, Robert, who emailed me this article in which the site is revealed to be a hoax.
I saw that the other day. I thought it had to be a joke, but I'm afraid it's not. God, I hope it is. The testimonials are the really the sad part.
I have to say though, watching your daughter date is a painful and stressful process. It really would be so much easier to just marry her off to a perfect guy and have that be the end of it!
Posted by: Trix | September 13, 2007 at 12:54 PM
People will do anything for money so my bet is this is real. The question I have is... just how does one determine what a daughter is worth? Past behavior? Future potential? Looks? I just glanced at the page and one girl was listed for $99,000 and another for a K-Mart price of $5,700. How do we create people like this?
Posted by: d-o-d | September 14, 2007 at 12:07 PM
Its not a real site. It was created to creat awarness that states allow people to marry at age 13 with parental consent. The website actually says that it is not real under the "about us section". The webpage says that they wrote the comments themselves
Posted by: reader | October 19, 2007 at 11:27 AM