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[quote=Anonymous]18:06 When you are the poor relations and the rest of your extended family are financially stable, they can mitigate some of the stress of poverty. When your ENTIRE family and neighborhood are in generational poverty, the ability to mitigate the stress of poverty is greatly reduced or nigh impossible. Mothers in my neighborhood shared food, but there were still nights kids went to bed hungry. If our heat was shut off, we would cross the street and share a bed with our cousins. However, it might be that their water was cut off and we might all troop back across to my unheated house to wash our faces before school. There really wasn’t an escape from stress. Not a dependable one. You can’t make long term plans. You focus on a next that is the very near future. It ate away at my childhood. By 8, I could eyeball the flour canister and tell you how many crappy pancakes we were away from skipping a meal.[/quote]
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