fatima has never met her brand fat fatima has never met her grandparents although they live close by,s because of something she doesn't have, a husband. >> translator: having a child without a father is not an easy thing. >> when merriam was just 19 years old and still a student, she got pregnant. her boyfriend refused to marry her and in moroccan society, bearing a child without being married is a source of deep shame. meryem said she considered suicide. instead, she ran away without telling her parents about her condition. >> translator: i felt confused. i didn't know what to do. i mean, should i go home or go back? where should i go? i was in a big dilemma. >> when it was time to have the baby she was too frightened to go to a hospital. although it's rarely prosecuted, there is a law in the books forbidding sex outside of marriage. >> translator: this isn't europe, this is morocco. the hospital means police and a scandal. >> eventually, she ended up here at solidarite feminine, it's a casa blanca-based non-profit organization that supports single mothers. meryem is learning a skill

hijos y un varÓn y tres viÑedos. >> fÁtima, usted?tivo, entonces yo creo que adelante, tenemos que ser abuelas modern, dinÁmicas y muy activas. >> ahora, metju[repaokph@despie conexiÓn entre nito y abuelo es vital? >> sÍ, es un cariÑo incondicionaque ninguna otra persona ede dar, puede ser un aliado. en un momento edad o tienen un enemigo comÚn que puede ser hedo. >> yo le preguntÉ a mi mamÁ si es verdad que se quiere mÁs a los nietos que a los hijos y me dijo en mi cara que sÍ. >> es mÁs, los nietos que tienen un abuelo, tienden a meterse menos en pandillas porque tienen un sentido de pertenencia histÓrica. el abuelo tiene un rol que nadie mÁs lo puede hacer. >> ¿y cÓmo se compara a los abuelos de antes con los de ahora? >> bueno, cosas buenas y cosas malas. o hoy en dÍa de familias donde los abuelos son sechables. no es h@univisiondes enviamos a un "home". no, los abuelos deben estar en vinculados a la familia. por otro lado, tampoco es la responsabilidad de los abuelos cuidar a los hijos. y hoy en dÍa con las mujeres que salimos a

meem is learning a skill, sewing, while fatima i looked after in the center's day care. the centeris the life'swork of 58-year-old aisha a shun. she was a young mother herself. she wasworking as a social worker whenhe ecountered a ngle mother giving her baby. >> translato when i saw her, e was in the middlef feeding her baby and t baby was taken fr her breast and started to cry. i ft hidi my tears and codn't sleep all night. thinking about thatorgue that was forced to give up her baby by socia pressure, legal pressure and enomic pressure and that night i swore to do something so thathis stops. in casa blank amorocco's largest city, with a population of 3 million, about 1,000 women r year give birth without being married according to one ngo study. solidarity train about 50 women at a timand has hundreds more th legal and social services. the organization lends women money t operate small businesses. it also runs itswn reaurants, and beauty salon. ose businesses havgreat fun. the organizion is also suppord by intnational ngos and thstate. perhaps t most importt thing that