Effects Of Affluenza

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“ parents who spoil their children out of ‘love’ should realize that they are performing acts of child abuse. Though there are no laws against such abuse--no man made laws-- this spiritual mistreatment may be a result inasmuch as long-term personal and social damage as the worst physical abuse.”- Randy Alcorn

The definition of the term Affluenza is “the unhealthy , unwelcome physiological and social effects of affluence regarded as a widespread societal problem.” it is considered that affluenza is the inability to understand the consequences of one's actions based on financial privilege. numbers of ‘affluenza has seemingly been highest in the The United States than any other country in the world. In 2008 a British philosopher James

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