I lived on the street and trains from when I was 13 and I saw so many young people running away from sexual abuse in foster homes. It's a bad system that produces broken people. You might as well just be dead. If somebody doesn't want their child, don't make them have it and put them in foster care. That will just create an army of unwanted children living on the street.
In her novel, author Cho Nam-Joo tells of a South Korean woman who is caught between tradition and hypermodernity.
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Ethnic plurality, religious tensions, rival elites: Afghanistan is a nation of contradictions. Seven Questions dig below the surface
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Remember, remember the fifth of November: the day when effigies of Guy Fawkes and contemporary villains go up in flames in the UK.
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Health care for Afghan women and girls was substandard even before the Taliban seized power, but now it is catastrophic: a visit to the province.
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The number of women with jobs is steadily increasing in Afghanistan. But many say their daily working lives are challenging. Newly won freedoms are by no means self-evident.
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How a tortilla oven survived a tsunami.
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