Jacqueline Charles of Miami Herald discussed Haiti tent babies
Sep
07
2011
How do we find a solution for Haiti booming population as a result of tent babies? In an interview with John Yearwood, Jacqueline Charles of the Miami Herald discussed the problem of Tent babies in Haiti. Beside many other crisis in Haiti, this one that we need to pay close attention to. However, if past behavior has anything to do with the way human tends to behave in the future, unfortunately we will be paying for a long time to come.
The Caribbean correspondent, Jacqueline Charles, who is also Haitian brought to the open the problem of tent Babies in Haiti. She described as you travel to the various tent camps in Haiti, you begin to notice an explosion of babies.
"After the earthquake", she stated, "Haiti had has a population boom. this is mainly as a result of transactional or survival sex". Jacqueline Charles explained that some Haitian girls as young as 12 and thirteen are trading sex for food and in the process are getting pregnant. In addition, Haitian women are vulnerable to rape and other problems.
A recent study revealed that pregnancy rate in Haitian tent cities are three times higher than those outside of the tent.
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