I pause to frame a response, but Nambang answers for me. I've had ten children, but only five have lived to grow into men and women. That's how it was when I was raising a family. But so much has changed in a generation. The government water and sanitation project has piped clean water into our community for the first time.
Children born today are healthier than ever before.
Now that we have a health centre in our village, many more babies stay well. We no longer need to have many children in the hope that a few will survive. My older sister has been married for only two years and already her second child is on the way. I'm glad you raised that point, Chia. Standing, she addresses the group.