"She has witnessed how 13-year-old girls bear the children of 65-year-old men while neither families nor authorities seem to be concerned. On other occasions, she said, parents 'give away' their daughters because they cannot support them or because they discover that they are no longer virgins.
'It's not regarded as sexual abuse because, if my grandmother got pregnant and married at an early age, and my great-grandmother too and my mother too, then it means I should too,' Cabrera said.
In southern Dominican communities, most girls can relate to this, or know someone who does.
'My sister got pregnant at 16, and that was very disturbing,' said 14-year-old Laura Perez. 'She got together with a person much older than her, and they have a baby. I don't think that was right.'"
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