Health

Child Health

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  Breaking the Cycle

  Mother: Whitney H

  This is me breaking the cycle with my daughter.  I don’t want my daughter to go through nothing I went through.

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  Can i have something to eat?

  Mother: Imani S

  “He was asking the case worker for something to eat.  I don’t have child care, so I have to take him to my appointments.  If he was in day care I wouldn’t have to have lugged him early in the morning to an appointment to the welfare office to try to get food stamps and medical coverage.  I can’t help it if my baby’s hungry.  I was thinking ‘I’m not going to lie to you miss, he’s hungry.’”

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  Marques

  Mother: Tianna G
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  Marianna

  Mother: Tianna G
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  Marcus

  Mother: Tianna G
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  Medical Testing

  Mother: Tianna G
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  Child Illness

  Mother: Tianna G

  "Every time my son got sick, their dad had to take off of work. That's  money we're missing. That means: Do we pay the rent or do we pay the light bill?"

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  Holding the Bottle

  Mother: Tianna G
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  Asthma

  Mother: Tianna G
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  Medical care

  Mother: Crystal S

  There are some benefits. They provide your children with vaccinations, things that they can’t get in third world countries, things that we take for granted… they can take care of me medically but the rest of me is just dangling out there, hanging on a rope...

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  Full schedule

  Mother: Crystal S

  They talk about people who are on SSI and Welfare, how they’re on Welfare just because they don’t want anything out of life. People are on it because sometimes they don’t have any other option. I really wanted to show that calendar and say: Employment. Is it really possible? Do you know somebody that’s going to hire me when I need to take all those days off? 

   

   

   

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  Brothers

  Mother: Janelle R

   I breastfed the oldest one. The youngest one, he gets sick a lot, but my oldest one doesn’t really get sick at all, because I breastfed him … [the younger one] had to stay in the hospital for about seven days because I caught an infection and then it passed through him. And at the time I couldn’t afford a breast pump. I couldn’t get to a pump fast enough so my milk dried up and I couldn’t breastfeed.

   

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  Cold sores

  Mother: Angelica R
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  My daughter's health

  Mother: Angelica R

  I want everyone to see how important her health is to me.  She’s been so sick.  Her asthma started acting up and then she got cold sores and, forget it! Those are all her medications. She has to take them everyday, and one medicine she takes four or five times a day, just to keep her mouth from hurting so bad.

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  Jesus in the hospital

  Mother: Christina K
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  Baptism in the hospital

  Mother: Christina K
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  In the hospital

  Mother: Christina K
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  Father and son

  Mother: Christina K
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  Behind bars

  Mother: Christina K
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  At the hospital

  Mother: Christina K