Selling children to survive: Afghan fathers forced to make impossible choices
In Afghanistan today, a staggering three in four people cannot meet their basic needs.
In Afghanistan today, a staggering three in four people cannot meet their basic needs.
The Afghan humanitarian crisis—with extreme poverty, starvation, and inability to meet basic needs—reflects the prophecy of 'famines, pestilences, and earthquakes' in various places as signs of the end times. The desperation forcing fathers to sell children exemplifies the breakdown of social order and survival desperation characteristic of eschatological famine conditions described in Matthew 24:7 and Luke 21:11.