High Food Prices Are Killing Children Around the World.

But Americans will merely need to spend less on Christmas gifts.

High food prices, due to environmental or political reasons, are going to turn the world upside down. While Americans are just now feeling a small pinch of inconvenience at the grocery store, much of the world has seen a decade of protests, civil war, famine, and death.

So while we bemoan the fact that our Thanksgiving turkey will cost a few extra dollars this year, let’s review what isn’t happening in our country.

Child Brides of Afghanistan

Parwana Malik during an interview (left) and being sold (right). (Images courtesy of CNN)

While child brides are not new in the Middle East (and it’s an abomination that I can even truthfully write that introduction), the problem is getting worse. CNN had a video crew at a refugee camp and filmed a 9-year-old girl, Parwana Malik, being sold to a 55-year-old man.

Now, this technically wasn’t a marriage, and the man claimed that she would be protected. But come on. This is Afghanistan we’re talking about, and any old man that literally buys an elementary aged girl isn’t paying for her to wash dishes, or sweep…