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Peggy Drexler: Kids and recession: sometimes, you just have to laugh

As dispiriting, prolonged and unprecedented as this recession has been, adults at least have the gift of perspective - a "this too shall pass" belief that things will get better. They always have. For children, there is no perspective. This is all new. Full Article at Huffington Post

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