She’s a 15 year-old kid in a school uniform. And she’s just given birth to a baby conceived through violence. That is her story. But it’s also the story of her mother. And her grandmother before that.
This is a cycle that’s fairly common in Jamaica, according to a 2006 Unicef report:
Approximately 20% of births are given by adolescents. In other [...]
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