Business Insider: Desperate Afghan parents are selling their kids to pay off debt as poverty levels deepen following Taliban takeover: report
* Some Afghan families are being forced to trade their kids to settle debts, the Wall Street Journal reported.
* Saleha, for example, is a house cleaner who gave up her 3-year-old girl instead of paying a $550 debt.
* Poverty is rising in Afghanistan following the Taliban's swift takeover in August.
Some desperate Afghan parents are forced to sell their children to deal with poverty, the Wall Street Journal reported.
A house cleaner in western Afghanistan named Saleha, for example, sold her 3-year-old daughter to a man to whom she owed a $550 debt. Saleha, 40, receives 70 cents a day from her job, and her husband doesn't work, the Journal said.
"If life continues to be this awful, I will kill my children and myself," Saleha told the Journal. "I don't even know what we will eat tonight."
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