Mother's Day: A 30-Year-Old Grandmother's Story
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Posted 03.16.2012
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I recently met Barkha, a 30-year-old grandma in Mangolpuri slum in Delhi. Her own mother married at nine, she married at 13, became a Mum at 14 and never went to school. Both her daughters got an education. Her first daughter continued the family tradition was married at 16 and immediately became pregnant with twins.
