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Seventeen-year-old Iesha Martinez lives in a rented apartment in Roxbury, Massachusetts, with her mother, four siblings, and 15-month-old son, Xavian. Iesha's day begins at 6 a.m., when Xavian wakes up for his bottle. By 7 a.m., she and her son are out the door and heading to Iesha's high school. There; she drops him off at his day-care center, which is on the first floor of the school.
The drop-off is often difficult. "Xavian just cries and it makes me sad," Iesha, a senior at Boston English High School, tells Choices. And mother and son won't see each other for hours. "My schedule is so...
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