Pain of poverty sticks, despite support of neighbors or spouses

http://www.springer.com/about+springer/media/springer+select?SGWID=0-11001-6-1440544-0

15 October 2013

Being married or having the support of neighbors to rely on does little to alleviate the symptoms of depression associated with economic hardship often experienced by poor mothers. With these findings, published in Springer’s American Journal of Community Psychology, Sharon Kingston of Dickinson College in the US challenges the growing perception that marriage and other forms of interpersonal support can buffer the negative effects of poverty.

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