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When single parents sharing resources face unequal health-related expenses

My sister and I are both raising kids as single moms and we've been sharing groceries and childcare to make ends meet but her kids have food allergies that require expensive specialty items and it's becoming a strain on our arrangement and we haven't talked about it directly.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Survival partnerships between equals become unbalanced when one person's health needs require more resources.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Money and physical health — poverty as health condition?”

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