Posted on 11/23/2021 7:35:19 AM PST by dynachrome
Jobless and engulfed in debt, Afghan brick kiln worker Fazal said the country's imploding economy had left him with a stark choice - marry off his young daughters, or risk the family starving to death.
Last month, he received a $3,000 dowry payment after handing over his 13- and 15-year-old daughters to men more than twice their age. If the money runs out, he may have to marry off his seven-year-old, he said.
'I had no other way to feed my family and pay off my debt. What else could I have done?' he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation from the Afghan capital, Kabul. 'I desperately hope I won't have to marry off my youngest daughter.'
Child marriage has increased in tandem with soaring poverty since the Taliban seized power 100 days ago on August 15, with reports of destitute parents even promising baby girls for future marriage in exchange for dowries, women's rights activists said.
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I have visions of John Belushi approaching the dinner table and saying “How much for the little girl?”.
“When the first-world collapses the third-world dies.” —Alex Jones
“We are afraid of the Taliban.”
Guess they aren’t afraid of starvation.
“I had no other way to feed my family”
Selling your family solves that problem.
So, a 10 year old girl has to go through a life of misery, beatings and possible death from simply looking up?! And that’s ok with the Dad?! So HE can eat?!
They should have fought for themselves.
They took another road, now they get what they get.
It’s NOT our problem.
The religion of pieces of meat.
Yes, they both deserve credit/blame for that.
these folks are sick in the head!!! You are supposed to protect your kids- and if you cannot- don’t have them.
Intelligence isn’t a high commodity there...
Some questions are simply too politically correct to even ask. For instance: What would be the current population of Africa is Western technology, agricultural techniques and medical practices were not introduced over the last 300 years?
Let’s Go, Brandon! :(
maybe HE can go bend over for some old guy to make money instead.
i’m hardly worried about the population in Africa.
#BidenBrides
About 1/8 what it is. Maybe less.
We should have never helped them.
Just what they’re trying to do here.
The Pedophile of the United States laughs.
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