Childhood

Rights of children

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  Childhood Innocence

  Mother: Ashley O
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  Looking Up

  Mother: Ashley O
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  CJ

  Mother: Ashley O
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  Reach for the Stars

  Mother: Ashley O
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  Adore

  Mother: Erica S
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  Sisters

  Mother: Erica S
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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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  Close-up of Zharae

  Mother: Whitney H

  "I’m gonna be real with my daughter. Being as though my daughter lives in the hood,  I’m gonna be straightforward to her. When she gets old enough to understand what’s going on around her, I want her to understand where mommy coming from. I’m gonna tell her about everything. I’m gonna tell her about the drug gang. I’m gonna tell her about everything, because if you don’t teach your child then the streets will, and if you let the streets teach them then they’re gonna turn them out, they’re gonna destroy them." 

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  Marques

  Mother: Tianna G
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  Marianna

  Mother: Tianna G
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  The Twins

  Mother: Tianna G
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  A Hot Summer Day

  Mother: Tianna G
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  Marcus

  Mother: Tianna G
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  Holding the Bottle

  Mother: Tianna G
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  A Close-up

  Mother: Tianna G
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  A young man

  Mother: Angela M

  I make him wear a tie and shoes to school, just to teach him how to be a young man.  A lot of times I don't make him wear it because the other kids don't, but at least once a week I make him wear his tie and his pants and his shoes.  I make him go to school like a gentleman.

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  Reaching Out

  Mother: Omunique P