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Divorce
in Kenya
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Millicent
Obaso works as a reproductive health officer in the Great Lakes
region of Africa - she works in fourteen countries. She is married
for the second time and has three children. But she says she
has paid a price for her professional career - the cost was
a painful divorce from her first husband which was not accepted
at her first by her family.
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A
Young Woman In Guatemala
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Ikor Allegria Guzman lives in a small town in Guatemala with
thirty thousand inhabitants. She calls it a conservative town
where religion plays an important part. Ikor is in her early
twenties, and she thinks family life and traditional moral values
are deteriorating under the influence of other outside cultures.
Ikor says she feels independent, but would never marry without
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Two
Generations In Zimbabwe
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Tute
Chigama lives in Harare, Zimbabwe, he makes and plays the mbira
or thumb piano. Tute has nine children and seventeen grandchildren.
One of these is Priscilla Munjeri - she says her grandfather
gives her advice about everything, including her boyfriends.
Tute and Priscilla compare the differences in their lives being
brought up at opposite ends of this century. |
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China's
Only Children
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Xia
Li Qin is a manager of an advertising company and she lives
in Beijing with her only child - a son who is twelve. She says
she accepts China's one child policy - and doesn't know anyone
who has two or more children. Xia Li thinks that it will make
no difference to her son being brought up without brothers and
sisters, but she does worry that she and her husband expect
to much of him because he is their only child. |
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The
New Man
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Rohan
Ponniah is forty-five years old and lives in the capital of
Sri Lanka, Colombo, with his wife, young son and baby daughter.
He compares his father's role in his childhood to his experience
of fathering now. Rohan calls himself a contemporary, modern
father - he wants his son to realize there is no difference
between being a man or a woman. |
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