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Scenario

How economic pressures force premature adulthood

My teenage son works twenty hours a week to help pay rent while his friends focus on college prep, and I hate that his childhood is ending because of my financial failures.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Poverty steals childhood by forcing young people to assume adult responsibilities before they have developed the emotional resources to bear them.

Your guide for this
Juana
Juana works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Fairness — what every civilization concluded?”

Peri

Peri can explain why this happens, help you decide if this is the right situation for you, and point toward the right journey or coach.

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