Afghanistan, Oct. 20 -- A 57-year-old Afghan father of 58 children says he struggles to feed and support his family of four wives in Uruzgan province, where poverty has left some children going to bed hungry.
Mohammad Sadiq spoke to the BBC about the challenges of raising his large family, including the difficulty of remembering all his children's names. He said he sometimes counts them around the family meal, only to discover that one is missing because a child is staying elsewhere. Sadiq and his wives have also lost 14 children over the years, according to the report.
Sadiq works at a car dealership, where he says he earns about 1,000 Afghanis when a vehicle is sold. He said the income is insufficient to meet the family's needs, and som...