India's growing population a burden for struggling mothers

By Agence France-Presse

May 04, 2023 2:50 pm

DARBHANGA, India: Married off by her parents at 14, Indian mother-of-seven Jaimala Devi kept having children because her husband insisted she could only stop once she had given birth to two sons.

In this photograph taken on April 27, 2023, Jaimala Devi, mother-of-seven, cooks food as her children watch inside their village house in Darbhanga district of India's Bihar state. - Married off by her parents at 14, Jaimala Devi kept having children because her husband insisted she could only stop once she had given birth to two sons. India's overall birthrate has fallen in tandem with its rising economy, but poverty, illiteracy and a deep-rooted bias for male children has left Bihar a national outlier. Photo by Sachin KUMAR / AFP

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