How Nurses Are Empowering Poor, Young Moms To Succeed

How Nurses Are Empowering Poor, Young Moms To Succeed

At the start of her junior year of college, 19-year-old Camille Wallace discovered she was pregnant. At the time, she lived in student housing with three roommates in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Her relationship with the father of her child had already ended. And her financial situation? Well, that was precarious.

Wallace supported herself by working temporary or seasonal jobs on vacation breaks, earning no more than $5,000 to $6,000 a year. "I was a typical college student, eating ramen noodles every day," Wallace, now 25, remembers. "I thought: 'I can barely feed myself. How can I feed this child?'"

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