The Print Edition. Struggling to see how she can support herself and her unborn child, Aka decides she must abort her baby by drinking a potion created out of tree bark in a DIY termination. You are either a child or an adult. However, all is not lost if you end up getting hitched to the Debbie Downer of the group. What, no?
Lots of other weird stuff like wife stealing, wife exchanging and wife sharing going on around the world but none of them, as shocking as these ones. Like Us. In front of his mother-in-law it is especially shameful. But it is unlikely he would have ever complained about it, or felt sorry from himself. After two to three years, she is permitted to visit her husband, but it is still taboo that she should live with him or bring the child with her; this only becomes permissible when her mother has managed to purchase all the items that are necessary for her home. And teenage pregnancies also abound in Malawi, where one in four teen girls under 18 is a mother in sub-Saharan Africa as a whole, more than 50 percent of births take place during adolescence.
