Why Nicole Walters quit her job, started a business and adopted 3 young sisters

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“I was the kid who started the trash bag brigade when I was younger, because we all needed to get together and pick up trash to clean up our neighborhood,” Nicole Walters, 36, tells GMA “I just looked at a problem and knew that I wanted to solve it.”

On a date night in October 2014, the couple saw a mother and her toddler panhandling on the side of a road in Baltimore. They pulled over and learned the mother was in a tough situation raising her kids who were 14, 11 and 3 at the time. Walters and her husband took the woman out to dinner and offered to mentor her kids."So we have a choice right now," she said she told her husband."These girls need people, you know, and I grew up poor. I know what it's like to not have.

And while the majority of adoptive parents are white -- 73% according to the Adoption Network -- there is a lack of representation and visibility of Black adoptive families.In 1972, the National Association of Black Social Workers released a statement calling for Black children to be adopted into Black homes.

“It was easier living with them,” Krissy tells"GMA." The 18-year-old freshman in college is studying math and hopes to pursue accounting and own her own business, just like Walters.In a span of five years, Nicole Walters and her husband Josh , potty-trained, taught how to read, put her girls, Daya, Krissy, and Ally through high school and kindergarten, taught how to drive, and more.

 

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