Parents selling children shows desperation of Afghanistan

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

SHEDAI CAMP, Afghanistan (AP) — In a sprawling settlement of mud brick huts in western Afghanistan housing people displaced by drought and war, a woman is fighting to save her daughter.

Aziz Gul’s husband sold the 10-year-old girl into marriage without telling his wife, taking a down-payment so he could feed his family of five children. Without that money, he told her, they would all starve. He had to sacrifice one to save the rest.

Many of Afghanistan’s growing number of destitute people are making desperate decisions such as these as their nation spirals into a vortex of poverty.

The aid-dependent country’s economy was already teetering when the Taliban seized power in mid-August amid a chaotic withdrawal of U.S. and NATO troops. The international community froze Afghanistan’s assets abroad and halted all funding, unwilling to work with a Taliban government given its reputation for brutality during its previous rule 20 years ago.

https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-lifestyle-poverty-marriage-taliban-6edf1acfd3849773b3cf6be1c2eb61fa

[underpants]

1. That is one Fed up country

I knew someone pretty high up in operations at the height of our involvement there. He told me that he regularly talked with the local chiefs in their tents. They always had small boys about. He said he couldn’t stand it because he knew why the boys were there.

[jimfields33]

2. I never could understand why the afghans wanted us out of there

Did they think it’d be better? We gave them 20 years and they still told us to leave. I’m surprised that they prefer this way of life then when the Americans were there.

[keithbvadu2]

3. Replacing the Taliban