Motherhood in Childhood
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The impact on girls’<br />
health, education<br />
and productivity<br />
When a girl becomes pregnant or<br />
has a child, her health, education,<br />
earn<strong>in</strong>g potential and her entire future<br />
may be <strong>in</strong> jeopardy, trapp<strong>in</strong>g her <strong>in</strong><br />
a lifetime of poverty, exclusion and<br />
powerlessness.<br />
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A 13-year-old fistula patient at a VVF centre <strong>in</strong> Nigeria.<br />
© UNFPA/Ak<strong>in</strong>tunde Ak<strong>in</strong>leye<br />
THE STATE OF WORLD POPULATION 2013<br />
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