Real shot: American single mothers under the poverty line

There are many single mothers in the United States, many of whom have no financial resources and can only support themselves and their children on welfare funds. They are very poor. Let's have a look.

Keira and her son Tony, 2006. Heather (the woman on the left) started dating Keira to help him take care of the children.

Heather and her daughter Jada, 20 10. Heather dated Kayla and lived together for two years. Later, she had sex with a boy who was an acquaintance of Heather and Keira. Heather was forced to give up custody of the child and be raised by her mother.

Robert, 20 13. Photographer Kenneth Ellie met Keira's brother Robert in 2004, when he was living in Children's Home, Kingston. He has two children now, and the children have two mothers. The picture shows him and his son Logan.

Jesse started drinking coffee when he was a baby. He is now 12 years old and still drinks coffee every day, saying that he can't sleep without coffee. He is still young in the photo.

Kandice，20 13。 The woman wearing a Frankenstein mask in the photo is Candice who longs for love. After several years of love, she became pregnant with a child, and the child was born in June 20 14.

Fate and Diana pretend to be adults smoking, 2008. The mothers of two girls work in Hess convenience store. When mom comes back, the girls will bring her carbonated drinks, help her take off her shoes and run to the kitchen to help her light a cigarette with the stove.

Law conference, 2007. The house where Lawerence lived collapsed overnight, and all valuable things in the family were destroyed, so the family had to go to the soup kitchen.

Patrice and Ji patrice are the youngest sisters. After their family left the soup kitchen, they moved several times and finally came to the street where Keira was located. Ji is an old friend of this family. He began to move to this family to help take care of the children and give the family financial support. Ji and patrice became inseparable.

The day Dai Na gave up her baby in 2006. Dana was pregnant with a childhood friend (who later married him), but Dana's father was a Christian who adhered to dogma. He thinks that children in Dai Na are best brought up by a Christian family.