Carmela Torres was 18 when she became pregnant for the first time. It was 1987 and she and her now-husband, Pablo Hernandez, were two idealistic young Colombians born in the coastal region of Montería who moved to the capital, Bogotá, in search of freedom and a better life. When Torres told her father she was expecting, so angered was he by the thought of his daughter having a child out of wedlock that they didn’t speak to each other for years. More From Mosaic Virtually Painless—How VR Is Making Surgery Safer Iceland knows how to stop teen substance abuse but the rest of the world isn’t listening Measuring Pain: How Much Does it Hurt? Torres remained undaunted. Her pregnancy was...
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