{"id":954306,"date":"2021-11-02T15:29:34","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T19:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=954306"},"modified":"2021-11-02T15:29:35","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T19:29:35","slug":"biden-left-afghanistan-taliban-took-over-now-more-families-selling-prepubescent-girls-to-keep-from-starving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-left-afghanistan-taliban-took-over-now-more-families-selling-prepubescent-girls-to-keep-from-starving\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Left Afghanistan. Taliban Took Over. Now More Families Selling Prepubescent Girls To Keep From Starving."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-left-afghanistan-taliban-took-over-now-more-families-selling-prepubescent-girls-to-keep-from-starving%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=954306&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>After President Biden pulled the last U.S. troops out of Afghanistan in August, many starving families have resorted to selling their pre-pubescent girls into marriages with older men in order to survive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThough marrying off children under 15 is illegal nationwide, it has been commonly practiced for years, especially in more rural parts of Afghanistan. And it has only spread since August, driven by widespread hunger and desperation,\u201d CNN reported.<\/p>\n<p>The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2021\/11\/01\/asia\/afghanistan-child-marriage-crisis-taliban-intl-hnk-dst\/index.html?utm_source=twCNN&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_term=link&amp;utm_content=2021-11-02T10%3A45%3A07\">CNN report<\/a> released on Tuesday detailed multiple instances where the young girls were sold, while asserting that international aid has dried up and the country\u2019s economy has collapsed. Mohammad Naiem Nazem, a human rights activist, told CNN, \u201cDay by day, the numbers are increasing of families selling their children. Lack of food, lack of work, the families feel they have to do this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Parwana Malik, a 9-year-old girl, told CNN that she was being sold to a man who says he is 55 years old and has white eyebrows and a thick white beard; she added that she was fearful he would beat her and force her to work for him. &nbsp;Her father, Abdul Malik, told CNN, \u201cWe are eight family members. I have to sell to keep other family members alive.\u201d When the buyer arrived at her home, her father wept and begged, \u201cThis is your bride. Please take care of her \u2014 you are responsible for her now, please don\u2019t beat her.\u201d Abdul Malik added to CNN, \u201cThe old man told me, \u2018I\u2019m paying for the girl. It\u2019s none of your business what I\u2019m doing with her \u2026 that\u2019s my business.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs they left, her father watching by the doorway, Parwana dug her feet into the dirt and tried to pull away \u2014 but it was no use. She was dragged to the waiting car, which slowly pulled away,\u201d CNN reported.<\/p>\n<p>10-year-old Magul was preparing to be sold to a 70-year-old man who was her father\u2019s creditor. Her father told CNN, \u201cI don\u2019t know what to do. Even if I don\u2019t give him my daughters, he will take them.\u201d&nbsp;Magul wept, \u201cI really don\u2019t want him. If they make me go, I will kill myself. I don\u2019t want to leave my parents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The father of two daughters ages 4 and 9 said he would sell them for 100,000 Afghanis (roughly $1,100) apiece.<\/p>\n<p>Malik concluded, \u201cAs I can see, we don\u2019t have a future \u2014 our future is destroyed. I will have to sell another daughter if<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After President Biden pulled the last U.S. troops out of Afghanistan in August, many starving families have resorted to selling their pre-pubescent girls into marriages with older men in order to survive.\u201cThough marrying off children under 15 is illegal nationwide, it has been commonly practiced for years, especially in more rural parts of Afghanistan. And it has only spread since August, driven by widespread hunger and desperation,\u201d CNN reported.The\u00a0CNN report released on Tuesday detailed multiple instances where the young girls were sold, while asserting that international aid has dried up and the country\u2019s economy has collapsed. Mohammad Naiem Nazem, a human rights activist, told CNN, \u201cDay by day, the numbers are increasing of families selling their children. Lack of food, lack of work, the families feel they have to do this.\u201dParwana Malik, a 9-year-old girl, told CNN that she was being sold to a man who says he is 55 years old and has white eyebrows and a thick white beard; she added that she was fearful he would beat her and force her to work for him. \u00a0Her father, Abdul Malik, told CNN, \u201cWe are eight family members. I have to sell to keep other family members alive.\u201d When the buyer arrived at her home, her father wept and begged, \u201cThis is your bride. Please take care of her \u2014 you are responsible for her now, please don\u2019t beat her.\u201d Abdul Malik added to CNN, \u201cThe old man told me, \u2018I\u2019m paying for the girl. It\u2019s none of your business what I\u2019m doing with her \u2026 that\u2019s my business.\u2019\u201d\u201cAs they left, her father watching by the doorway, Parwana dug her feet into the dirt and tried to pull away \u2014 but it was no use. She was dragged to the waiting car, which slowly pulled away,\u201d CNN reported.10-year-old Magul was preparing to be sold to a 70-year-old man who was her father\u2019s creditor. Her father told CNN, \u201cI don\u2019t know what to do. Even if I don\u2019t give him my daughters, he will take them.\u201d\u00a0Magul wept, \u201cI really don\u2019t want him. If they make me go, I will kill myself. I don\u2019t want to leave my parents.\u201dThe father of two daughters ages 4 and 9 said he would sell them for 100,000 Afghanis (roughly $1,100) apiece.Malik concluded, \u201cAs I can see, we don\u2019t have a future \u2014 our future is destroyed. I will have to sell another daughter if my financial situation doesn\u2019t improve \u2014 probably the 2-year-old.\u201dThe Daily Wire reported on August 19:New polling from The Daily Wire found that Americans are most concerned with the consequences for Afghan women and girls following President Joe Biden\u2019s withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan.The poll conducted on August 17 and 18 concluded that 84 percent of Americans say they are \u201cconcerned about the consequences for Afghan women and girls.\u201d 63 percent of Americans find these consequences \u201cextremely concerning.\u201dThe polling results come as videos were released of young women crying for help amid the Taliban takeover of the capital city of Kabul. One\u00a0video\u00a0from Kabul showed a young woman begging U.S. forces to save her from the Taliban. The video comes as thousands of women and men \u2014 including thousands of Americans \u2014 are trapped inside Afghanistan.The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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