# Married at 11 and Raising Two Dozen Children: A Woman’s Story - Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2120765330125644245 - Source account: [@rs_rajender](https://x.com/rs_rajender) - Source language: Hindi - Target language: English - Duration: 2:20 - Published: 2026-11-12 - Machine translated. Check the original before quoting. - Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8nKpPBLyXCKQ/en/married-at-11-and-raising-two-dozen-children-a-woman-s-story - Original-language version: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8nKpPBLyXCKQ/hi/11-%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B2-%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%82-%E0%A4%B6%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%80-%E0%A4%94%E0%A4%B0-%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%8B-%E0%A4%A6%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%A8-%E0%A4%AC%E0%A4%9A%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%9A%E0%A5%87-%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BE-%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%87-%E0%A4%AC%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%9A%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%A4.md ## Transcript [0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8nKpPBLyXCKQ/en/married-at-11-and-raising-two-dozen-children-a-woman-s-story) Your brother, right? Take him, then return. [0:03](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8nKpPBLyXCKQ/en/married-at-11-and-raising-two-dozen-children-a-woman-s-story?t=3) Okay, how old are you? Twenty-two. Twenty-two. And when did you get married? [0:09](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8nKpPBLyXCKQ/en/married-at-11-and-raising-two-dozen-children-a-woman-s-story?t=9) When I was eleven. When you were eleven. [0:11](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8nKpPBLyXCKQ/en/married-at-11-and-raising-two-dozen-children-a-woman-s-story?t=11) You got married so young? Our community marries us early. [0:14](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8nKpPBLyXCKQ/en/married-at-11-and-raising-two-dozen-children-a-woman-s-story?t=14) Why? That's just our custom. It's a custom to marry young? Yes. Why? [0:19](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8nKpPBLyXCKQ/en/married-at-11-and-raising-two-dozen-children-a-woman-s-story?t=19) Girls run away, or do something improper? [0:21](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8nKpPBLyXCKQ/en/married-at-11-and-raising-two-dozen-children-a-woman-s-story?t=21) Yes. Do they really run away? Yes, I'm not joking. I'm serious. [0:25](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8nKpPBLyXCKQ/en/married-at-11-and-raising-two-dozen-children-a-woman-s-story?t=25) Have girls run away in your family before? [0:28](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8nKpPBLyXCKQ/en/married-at-11-and-raising-two-dozen-children-a-woman-s-story?t=28) It's happened a lot. It's happened a lot. [0:30](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8nKpPBLyXCKQ/en/married-at-11-and-raising-two-dozen-children-a-woman-s-story?t=30) So they married you off early out of fear. Yes. [0:32](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8nKpPBLyXCKQ/en/married-at-11-and-raising-two-dozen-children-a-woman-s-story?t=32) So now your family isn't afraid That's the downside of getting married young. [0:36](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8nKpPBLyXCKQ/en/married-at-11-and-raising-two-dozen-children-a-woman-s-story?t=36) It's okay, then this becomes a woman's duty. [0:39](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8nKpPBLyXCKQ/en/married-at-11-and-raising-two-dozen-children-a-woman-s-story?t=39) Having children? Yes. How many in your family? [0:41](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8nKpPBLyXCKQ/en/married-at-11-and-raising-two-dozen-children-a-woman-s-story?t=41) There are about two dozen. There are two dozen children. [0:44](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8nKpPBLyXCKQ/en/married-at-11-and-raising-two-dozen-children-a-woman-s-story?t=44) Know all their names? How many of them can I name? [0:48](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8nKpPBLyXCKQ/en/married-at-11-and-raising-two-dozen-children-a-woman-s-story?t=48) Tell me this one's name. Sabu. How old is this one? [0:51](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8nKpPBLyXCKQ/en/married-at-11-and-raising-two-dozen-children-a-woman-s-story?t=51) Sabu? The soap guy? Yes. You named him after soap? [0:54](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8nKpPBLyXCKQ/en/married-at-11-and-raising-two-dozen-children-a-woman-s-story?t=54) No, no, Sabu. Where did the name Sabu come from? [0:58](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8nKpPBLyXCKQ/en/married-at-11-and-raising-two-dozen-children-a-woman-s-story?t=58) I named him. You named him? Yes. Did you name all the kids? [1:02](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8nKpPBLyXCKQ/en/married-at-11-and-raising-two-dozen-children-a-woman-s-story?t=62) Yes. Did your husband do anything at all? [1:04](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8nKpPBLyXCKQ/en/married-at-11-and-raising-two-dozen-children-a-woman-s-story?t=64) He did! He gave me these children. That's his work. [1:08](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8nKpPBLyXCKQ/en/married-at-11-and-raising-two-dozen-children-a-woman-s-story?t=68) That's a husband's achievement. Yes. So you tell him, "Hey, don't do this." [1:12](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8nKpPBLyXCKQ/en/married-at-11-and-raising-two-dozen-children-a-woman-s-story?t=72) Find other work to do. He does other work too, then he manages to do this as well. [1:17](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8nKpPBLyXCKQ/en/married-at-11-and-raising-two-dozen-children-a-woman-s-story?t=77) Oh, he does this alongside his other work? Yes. [1:19](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8nKpPBLyXCKQ/en/married-at-11-and-raising-two-dozen-children-a-woman-s-story?t=79) What does he do, anyway? What labor does he do? [1:21](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8nKpPBLyXCKQ/en/married-at-11-and-raising-two-dozen-children-a-woman-s-story?t=81) Does he work for daily wages? He works hard, selling balloons in the neighborhoods. I see, So, watching the children in the neighborhoods made him crave children that he wanted many of his own. [1:31](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8nKpPBLyXCKQ/en/married-at-11-and-raising-two-dozen-children-a-woman-s-story?t=91) Yes, he got the urge, so he had them. It's just a matter of desire? Yes. [1:36](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8nKpPBLyXCKQ/en/married-at-11-and-raising-two-dozen-children-a-woman-s-story?t=96) Okay, tell me this: when you got married, Did he tell you your husband... [1:39](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8nKpPBLyXCKQ/en/married-at-11-and-raising-two-dozen-children-a-woman-s-story?t=99) ...that I was going to have more than two dozen children? [1:42](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8nKpPBLyXCKQ/en/married-at-11-and-raising-two-dozen-children-a-woman-s-story?t=102) No. He didn't tell you? No. Did you get a face-showing gift? [1:45](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8nKpPBLyXCKQ/en/married-at-11-and-raising-two-dozen-children-a-woman-s-story?t=105) What should I give to show my face? You gave birth to three children. [1:48](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8nKpPBLyXCKQ/en/married-at-11-and-raising-two-dozen-children-a-woman-s-story?t=108) You had three children? Yes. And they were born a year later. [1:51](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8nKpPBLyXCKQ/en/married-at-11-and-raising-two-dozen-children-a-woman-s-story?t=111) They were born a year later. So, I mean, how are you so active? [1:56](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8nKpPBLyXCKQ/en/married-at-11-and-raising-two-dozen-children-a-woman-s-story?t=116) Do you eat some special kind of diet? Yes, I've always been like this. [2:01](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8nKpPBLyXCKQ/en/married-at-11-and-raising-two-dozen-children-a-woman-s-story?t=121) Always like this? Yes. After so many children, you haven't gotten weak? [2:04](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8nKpPBLyXCKQ/en/married-at-11-and-raising-two-dozen-children-a-woman-s-story?t=124) No. Why? Some women become weak, and some women stay like this. [2:11](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8nKpPBLyXCKQ/en/married-at-11-and-raising-two-dozen-children-a-woman-s-story?t=131) I've stayed like this. Well, I've noticed this, that people who live in the slums have a lot of stamina. [2:16](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8nKpPBLyXCKQ/en/married-at-11-and-raising-two-dozen-children-a-woman-s-story?t=136) They really do have a lot of children. How do you manage to feed them all?