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Every child in the welfare home had endured their share of hardship, tasted the bitterness of poverty. However, scarcity doesn’t always teach people the value of things or the virtue of restraint. On the contrary, the hunger born of deprivation often transforms into an unrestrained desire for gratification once scarcity turns into abundance.

Most of the kids, after suffering the hardships of having no money, would spend recklessly once they had the freedom to do so.

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