So of course, when you educate a girl, she tends to get married later on in life, she tends to have kids later on in life, she tends to have fewer kids, and those kids that she does have, she educates them in a more enlightened fashion.

Months later on Christmas Eve, Sarah is making final preparations for her delivery the following day.

What is fuelling this child kidnapping? Thanks to the one child policy, and Chinese traditions placing huge pressure on families to have sons, stolen children are often sold into new families.

These findings include the persistence of traditional norms for childbearing and the roles of men and women, concerns about medical complications and infertility at a later age, and the link between early fertility and early marriage.

Girls who had to leave school to have babies were certainly not prevented by law from returning to school after their confinement the fact that they generally did not go back to school was due to socio cultural considerations of modesty.

Taking the several inconvenient and sometimes unpleasant steps required to have a child together by means of IVF can be, and often is, the result of a much more deliberate and reciprocally loving act than sexual intercourse.