The Effects Of Recession-Hit Families

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Affects that come from recession-hit families hard, job loss affects the stability of families and also individuals. The loss of stability can drastically change a person's self-worth and well being. That being said this might drive a person into a deep depression where they only see drugs and alcohol as a way to cope. I say this because I have seen first hand what this recession does to someone who was put out of work. My mother was affected by this recession because it caused her to lose her job, and this job loss did exactly what I stated earlier and hurt her self-worth driving her to cope with the use of drugs. As you can piece together this drug use made the living for me and my siblings erratic. In the case of how it affected me it only

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