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YEMEN - BABIES & BURKHAS

Today on Viceland we travel to Yemen, a country where women have an average of 7.9 children compared to 2.7 in the rest of the world. This disparity might have something to do with a culture that censures contraception and allows marriages to be consummated when the bride is as young as nine years old. Abbie Trayler-Smith had the privilege of being given access to a Yemeni hospital maternity unit and taking photographs at four separate births.