For thousands of Batswana girls, marriage and motherhood start before adulthood.
While their peers are still playing house with plastic dolls, a growing number of Botswana adolescent girls are secretly being married off, nursing babbies and changing diapers even before reaching their teens – new statistics have revealed.
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