Venera Martkoplishvili, 63, Gardabani
"I got married when I was 14, this was a love marriage, as they call it. I am not sure I was sane, I even did not finish the 8th grade
"I got married when I was 14, this was a love marriage, as they call it. I am not sure I was sane, I even did not finish the 8th grade
„I’ve always had this feeling that I was “nobody’s child”. I was born in Telavi in 1981, without a father. When I was born, my father had another family and he had left my mother during her pregnancy. Imagine how difficult it must have been
"As I was the only child in the family I always wished to have siblings. For the same reason I wanted to have many children, at least three. Because of the public attitude that having a boy in the family is a “must” people used
„I was not able to have children because of biological reasons. I would have never been able to have a baby unless medicine had been so developed. Saba, who is now 13, is a biological son of my husband and me, born through in vitro
“I had an unsuccessful surgery on my leg and I am still suffering from the consequences… From the start, I did not face any barriers either at college or at school. It’s just that my friends could not hide surprise for the first few seconds on
I was married at 22 and lived for 7 years with a man who was completely different from me. My eldest child, Mariam was diagnosed with hydrocephalus caused by birth trauma. They discharged us from the hospital, not telling us there was something wrong with
I am a philologist, I teach the Georgian language and literature both at school and the Duisi Educational Center. I am not sure whether you find my story interesting but as I am a teacher and I teach at school I would like to talk
„I had done gymnastics as my parents wished until I took up judo. I knew that there was some extracurricular sports class available at school and went to check it. It appeared to be a judo class. When I entered the class first, I liked
„Both my husband and I wanted to have a baby very much, i.e. this was a planned pregnancy and we prepared for that. Moreover, as my husband is a doctor, we learned the American Academy of Pediatrics recommendations and almost retold them to each other.