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When children's health needs exceed family resources

My kid needs glasses but they're not covered by our insurance and I see her squinting at the board at school and I feel like I'm failing at the most basic parental duty.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Economic inability to meet children's health requirements challenges fundamental assumptions about parental adequacy and child welfare.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Body in poverty — health as class condition?”

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