BBC News Story: Girls for sale

There is another link on the same page to a Mexican man who sold his children, but it is much more common in Asia.

In countries such as India, where a family must pay a ruinous dowry to have a daughter wed, a girl can cripple a family financially. Female infanticide is still practiced in rural areas there.

Tajikistan is not the only place where children are sold, not by a long shot.