By the age of 12, Katherine Mims was what you might call a welfare mother in training. That was in 1985, when home was a two-bedroom Harlem apartment that she shared with her mother, four brothers, one cousin and a pregnant aunt who was 14. All of them were supported by welfare checks, a background that might have put Mims in line for early pregnancy, an education cut off in the ninth grade or so and a long stretch on public support. Instead, she is married today and looking forward to starting a family -- after she finishes her degree program...
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