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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 />

s<br />

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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