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Poverty places not just one or two obstacles but multiple obstacles in a child's pathway to what we would consider to be regular development - cognitively, intellectually and emotionally.
Geoffrey Canada
Geoffrey Canada
Geoffrey Canada
Born: Jan 13, 1952

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Poverty, Consider, One Or Two, Would, Emotionally, Development, Obstacles, Intellectually, Child, Pathway, Just, Just One, Places, Regular, Multiple, Two

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