Baby Girls Seen As Mixed Blessing In Afghanistan

Radio Free Europe
Radio Liberty
By Farangis Najibullah, Haseeba Shaheed
February 07, 2012
At the age of 29, childbirth is nothing new to Rukhsar, yet the expectant mother can't help being apprehensive about her fifth child.

Her first four children, aged between 2 and 12, are all girls, and she feels pressure to deliver a boy to please her husband. If she gives birth to another daughter, Rukhsar says, she fears he will seek a second wife.

"I would have to organize for him to get a second wife," she says. "I don't want him to get another wife, but I would have no other choice [in order to avoid divorce]."
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