Afghanistan Analysts Network – English

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Selling children to survive: Afghan fathers forced to make impossible choices

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BBC, 19 May 2026

A distressing story how increasing poverty caused by the post-2021 economic and humanitarian crisis (caused by Taleban restrictions and western donors’ disengagement) forces families to sell children to feed the remaining ones.

This report indirectly provides background to the recently published Taleban “regulations of divorce” that, among other points, legalises many forms of child marriage.