Complex sentence: They promise poor families in faraway villages who have too many mouths to feed a better life for their children.Once, aquired, these children lose all contact with their families and, like slaves of the past, are sometimes given new names for the sake of convenience.
Split into simpler sentences: They promise poor families in faraway villages who have too many mouths to feed a better life for their children. Once acquired, these children lose all contact with their families and, like slaves of the past, are sometimes given new names for the sake of convenience.