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Keeping the Faith: A Teen Dad's Story
By Kehinde Togun, 17, Staff Writer

 

 

 

 

Photo by Kehinde Togun

Uniquek Haywood with his daughter, Imani

�In Swahili, the word �Imani� means �faith,�� explains 19-year-old teen dad Uniquek Haywood, sitting at home in downtown Orange, New Jersey. And he needed faith when he and his girlfriend, Sandra Sanchez, 17, found out that she was pregnant. They were still in high school. They had no home or jobs of their own, but they decided to have the baby.

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