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  1. ZAMBIA: The Extended Family - Blessing or Burden?

    - Inter Press Service

    A story from Inter Press Service, an international news agency

    Peggy Kapanda has bad memories of the time she spent living with her uncle when she was young. She was treated as a second-rank child. But this only motivated her to do a better job herself. At her small home in John Laing compound, in Zambia's capital Lusaka, she and her husband take care of two other children in addition to their own three young boys.

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