Heartbreaking: Photographs show 14-year-old woman struggle to raise her baby in poverty

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For the last three years a Reuters photographer has provided an inside look into the lives of Krishna and her young husband Gopal Kishan, starting with their marriage in May of 2010 – he at the age of 13 and she 11. 

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Beginning: Gopal Kishan stands next to his wife Krishna in 2010, in the first of many photos that would be taken of the young couple over the course of three years
Groom on his wedding day
Home together: Now 13 and 15 years old, Krishna stands with her husband Kishan Gopal inside a newly constructed room at her house
Newly weds
Work: Two years after their wedding Gopal Kishan, now 15, works in his family's struggling soybean field outside his villageReality: Gopal Kishan stands on the edge of the field that's facing irrigation problems, while his father before him looks on
2 years after, Husband works in a Soya bean farm to make ends meet

Escape: Helping occupy some time, the young father smokes a cigarette while drinking with his friends on the outskirts of their village
Father drinks to relieve himself of his struggle
Work to be found: Krishna, 13, works with some tools in her home while talking with her husband, not seen, who is now struggling to find work with the soybean fields not producing
Krishna, 13, works with some tools in her home while talking with her husband
New mom: One year later at the age of 14 Krishna poses with her four-month-old baby Alok alongside her 16-year-old husband inside the living room of their house
One year later at the age of 14 Krishna poses with her four-month-old baby Alok alongside her 16-year-old husband inside the living room of their house

Source: Daily mail