NOUAKCHOTT ¨C Salimata was always told she should be proud to come from a family of wife beaters.
¡°You¡¯re the daughter of a woman whose husband broke her hands. Your grandmother¡¯s legs were fractured by her husband. You must be loved,¡± Salimata said, citing her mother¡¯s words.
The 19-year-old woman from Mauritania¡¯s Soninke ethnic group, married to a man who also beats her, said she taught herself to believe what her mother told her.
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