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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.

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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.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

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

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