“They were afraid I would die”: Early motherhood puts girls at risk in the Republic of Moldova

CIMISLIA, the Republic of Moldova – Maria* gave birth to her first child when she was 16, an age when most of her peers were graduating from secondary school. Today, at 22 years old, she has three daughters.“People who meet me for the first time don’t believe that I have three children. They think that they are my little sisters,” Maria said. She met the man who would become her husband, Victor*, when she was 15. She became pregnant soon after.
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