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Why family values and survival needs sometimes conflict

Everyone in my family worked their whole lives and never took handouts and now I am on food stamps and cannot tell them.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Inherited beliefs about self-sufficiency collide with present reality in ways that isolate us from support systems.

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