Tough to be a girl

Two other quick notes:
- there is a girl in our neighborhood who look like she might be pregnant. She is also 12.
- today while assessing, a woman told us that she needed money or any kind of aid, because she needed a dowry to marry off her daughter.

I gotta say that these kinds of things would seem to be hits to the self-confidence of Bengali girls. It certainly seems rough to an outsider.