Ruth Macdonald, the service's deputy manager, says these women are worth investing in as mums because it can break the cycle of poor parenting and benefit future generations of mothers.
Certainly we tell them we will compensate them, but what we also tell them is that, in future, no mothers or wives will have to suffer as they have suffered.
While the program aims to prevent future pregnancies, Escobar also wants to give these young mothers the tools they need to change their lives.
Education serves to change the lives of girls and young women for future generations too - educated girls are more likely, as mothers, to send their own girls to school.
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Liu said that Chinese families often contain a strict mother and a gentle father and that discipline and guidance from mothers are essential in putting children on the path to future success.
That day, which should have been filled with joy for each of the families, but that was now marked by tremendous loss, I resolved to do what I could to save the lives of mothers, so that more babies would have a sustainable future.
Not only did the data show that many more boys than girls are encouraged by a parent to run for office, but half of the students whose mothers suggested they run said they would like to in the future, compared with only 3% of those who got no nudge.
The debt relief development programs that industrialized nations committed to in Britain this summer may help the future of Niger and other African states, but what will it do today, as we see pictures of mothers with matchstick-thick arms holding fragile, listless infants?
"Where we do agree is that initiatives designed to raise the prospects of new mothers - of born and unborn children - should receive increased support and funding, particularly through education and future careers, " he said.
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