I am a 15-year-old teenage mother. My daughter is now 1 year old. Bringing her up is very difficult. I went to the welfare office to try to get some help to raise her. The man at the office told me that if I couldn’t afford to have kids then I shouldn’t have had one. What kind of judgement about my life are these people allowed to make? I was pissed. He also told me I was too young to receive welfare. I am too young to get a job. I can’t get a workers permit because you have to be in school. If I could turn back the hands of time I would have never had a baby. Don’t get me wrong, I love my baby, she is my life now. The Boys and Girls Club Photography project, Reality from the Barrio has helped us out a lot. It’s fun to take pictures and develop them. I photograph my daughter all the time. I can bring her to the Club and everyone there loves her and supports me and no one there has ever passed judgement on me.