This piece, from the U.S. National Public Radio’s “Goats and Soda: Stories of Life in a Changing World” series, tells the story of a woman in Afghanistan suffering from extreme poverty who is forced to make the decision to give up her infant. The woman was abandoned by her husband and left to care for her elderly father and five children. In order to support her family and keep her children from freezing in the harsh winter, the woman made the decision to sell her infant child. This piece reports her story and links it to other similar cases in Afghanistan.
