After school on a bright May afternoon, brothers Jayden, Elijah and Emmanuel kick a bright yellow ball around their backyard in Douglasville.
The 7, 9, and 10-year-old siblings are under the watchful eye of their mother, Nikki Blount, a recently divorced single parent currently working as a patient care technician at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta.
During her marriage, Blount was a stay-at-home mom who only worked part-time about two days a week.
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