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By PNG correspondent Natalie Whiting in Port Moresby Posted 14h ago, updated 13h ago
PNG is a country where women still suffer much more than they should, under the whims and the rule of men.
PNG's population is booming, but many women remain under intense pressure to have babies
By PNG correspondent Natalie Whiting
Posted Saturday 26 October 2019 at 1:19am, updated Saturday 26 October 2019 at 9:28am
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Big families are very common in Papua New Guinea, and children are seen as incredibly important because land is passed down through family lines.
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On average each woman will have more than four children. In the highlands, the average is more than five.
As a result, the country's population is booming, and there are serious concerns that services are not keeping up.
PNG's Government has acknowledged it needs to address population growth and it said family planning and contraception is part of that.
But in a country with strong religious and cultural beliefs, it is not always a simple task.
'Whatever the men say, the women have to follow'
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Most of PNG has a strong patriarchal culture and women often have to get permission from their husbands to go on contraception.
Cathy Tukne from Marie Stopes said one woman came to an outreach clinic wanting to go on contraception, but her husband came with guns to retrieve her.
"She cried when she left, and we couldn't do anything," she said.
There are cases of women who have had a contraceptive implant put into their arms being brought back in to have it removed after their husbands have seen the scar.
Sometimes, their husbands have cut it out themselves.
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Andy Henry, another Marie Stopes worker, said one woman got an IUD after her 14th child.
She opted for the device that is implanted in the uterus so that her husband would not know.
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