The Woman Who Sold Her Baby For $435 To Buy Firewood : Goats and Soda : NPR: "Last week in the northern Afghan province of Balkh, an impoverished mother chose the only option she felt was left to her, after her drug-addicted husband abandoned her. She had to care by herself for five young children and an elderly father. So she sold her 1-month-old infant for money — the equivalent of about $435 in American currency — to buy kindling wood to keep her four other children from freezing in the harsh winter weather."
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Thursday, February 5, 2015
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