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How to balance Ubuntu obligations with nuclear family needs

I send money home to my extended family every month but my own children are wearing secondhand clothes to school, and I cannot figure out how to honor my obligations without sacrificing my immediate family.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Traditional kinship duties are colliding with present circumstances in ways that leave everyone partially served.

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