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Shenan bathes her children in the kitchen sink while Sam prepares the baby bottles. Before heading out to school, Shenan will vacuum the family trailer and push Sam out to work.

At New Futures, a public school where all students are either pregnant or have children, Shenan takes part in a child development class.

Weekday mornings in the Stump mobile home are hectic, as Sam, 18, and Shenan, 17, prepare for work and school. It's never easy, but with the help of Sam's parents, the unmarried couple are staying together, making plans for marriage.

Home at last, Tom helped Ashley swing on a backyard gym. Now the problem will be dealing with the younger daughter, Meghan, who was oftentimes ignored during Ashley's treatments.

Relieved to have the test past, but not yet aware of the results, Tom and Lynn hug. At heart was the fear that the illness and its effects on everyone could tear the family apart.

The final bone marrow test.

The little girl had been told she wouldn't have to go back to the hospital again, so she felt betrayed and withdrew under a sheet as her exhausted father slept.

When a child is sick. Near the end of her treatment for Leukemia, Ashley came down with a complicated case of the chicken pox. Hospitalized tests were begun.

The father of an Alpha member, who could no longer care for himself, is now cared for by Alpha members.

Within the large farm family are smaller families. At a birthday party for Lisa, she and her husband listen to toasts, while their son, Dylan, is read to be a fellow member.