11 year old child mothers

Monday, June 09, 2014

In this edition we also carry a story from Maun revealing under age mothers as young as 11 years old. The story states that the tourism hub has registered some 285 births by teen mothers. Of course the problem may be worse than it is reported as the

It is not only the phenomenon of an 11- year-old girl giving birth that is a moral shocker. The number of child mothers is also a cause for concern. The child mothers have been denied the chance to experience and

enjoy childhood, as they have become parents overnight. It spells doom for their personal development, for how would the newmothers be able to continue their education in preparation for better paying careers. They

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