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Rick Loomis (with Liz O. Baylen, Albert Lee, Ken Weiss, Jeff Amlotte, Colin Baylen, Ann Simmons, Mary Cooney)
Los Angeles Times
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"DEFYING TRADITION: A TEENAGE FATHER IN INDIA DECIDES TWO CHILDREN IS ENOUGH"
Ramjee Lal Kumhar and his bride, Mamta, were married in their village in India when he was 11 and she was 10. At age 15, Ramjee, by then the father of two, shocked his relatives by announcing that he and Mamta were done having children. They are members of the largest generation in history, whose reproductive choices will have a profound effect on how quickly the planet's population grows.
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