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People's Problems

At 39, Mariam Nabatanzi is the biological mother of 38 children. Since being married off at the age of 12, Mariam has given birth no less than 15 times to twins, triplets and quadruplets. Only her youngest child was born on his own. Mariam tried to look for family planning options after her sixth child, but her doctors said she had so many egg cells she should keep giving birth or she might die. Contraceptives like the pill or an IUD didn't work for her either because Mariam claims they made her feel sick. Only after her much older husband abandoned the family a few years ago did she stop having kids. Now Mariam and her children eke out a living in Kasawo village in Uganda with little or no outside help.