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<strong>BBC news</strong> – Adolat has striking looks, a quiet voice and a secret that she finds deeply shameful.<br />
She knows what happened is not her fault, but she cannot help feeling guilty about it.</p>
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Adolat comes from Uzbekistan, where life centres around children and a big family is the definition of personal success. Adolat thinks of herself as a failure.<br />
"What am I after what happened to me?" she says as her hand strokes her daughter's hair – the girl whose birth changed Adolat's life. "I always dreamed of having four – two daughters and two sons – but after my second daughter I couldn't get pregnant," she says.</p>
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She went to see a doctor and found out that she had been sterilised after giving birth to her daughter by Caesarean section. "I was shocked. I cried and asked: 'But why? How could they do this?' The doctor said, 'That's the law in Uzbekistan.' <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17612550" target="_blank">Links</a></p>
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