frank lee bent wrote: ↑Tue May 29, 2018 3:57 am of course, infants are regularly sold by impoverished parents who lack the means to look after them. often to childless couples who cherish them as their own children,if lucky.

my gf had many people wanting to adopt her, but she was her father's favorite of 9 surviving kids.

the whole family lived for some years in a bed with a tarp over it just behind where the small market was until recently in SV.
Dad had TB, and could not work, so all the little kids went along with him to collect cans at 4 AM from about the time they could walk.
they ate a lot of weeds, fish, rats, frogs and whatever they could catch- and family sent them rice from land in Takeo.

now ppl in SV are really fucked, because even lowly laboring jobs are being taken by PRC people. even the beach sellers are screwed as casino workers do not buy fruit or bracelets on the beach now it has turned into a wasteland.

i wish people in the developed world realized that 80% of people live like this.

sadly it will get worst as more PRC come in and everything turns to business and money for the rich & powerful.