Assertion: girl's parent | /r/CapableOf | sell their children
Facets:
value: actually,
type: OTHER
value: according to anthropologist samuel pyeatt menefee
type: OTHER
value: in late 17th and 18th century
type: TEMPORAL
value: to buy food
type: PURPOSE
value: in contemporary nepal
type: LOCATION
Source sentences:
text: In contemporary Nepal, parents of poor families sell their children to orphanages (or sometimes simply hand them over without any payment).
text: desperate starving parents would either kill a suffering infant, sell a child to buy food for the rest of the family, or beg people to take them away for nothing and feed them.
text: According to anthropologist Samuel Pyeatt Menefee, in late 17th and 18th century Britain, parents in poverty "sold their children (actually, their children's services, but to all intents and purposes their persons as well)".