Interesting Global [email protected]English • 8 months ago

Pre-teen pregnancies are rising in the Philippines – critics blame the Catholic Church

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Pre-teen pregnancies are rising in the Philippines – critics blame the Catholic Church

www.telegraph.co.uk

Interesting Global [email protected]English • 8 months ago

Experts fear the country’s culture of ‘prevailing conservatism’, created by Catholicism, is a barrier to contraception and sex education

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3•8 months ago
How… HOW DO YOU BIRTH 69 BABIES?
- @[email protected]
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  Numbers in bold and italics are likely to be legendary or inexact, some of them having been recorded before the 19th century.
  
  But 33 though, still…
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    Anything above 4 already impresses me
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      I don’t even want to give birth to one baby let alone an entire herd

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