When I lived in a tiny hamlet in Southern Italy I saw...a family bravely holding together in spite of the grimmest poverty and the absence of most of the men who were working in Germany, and their children were the happiest, the least coy and irritable of any that I have every observed. As all the neighbouring families were kin, the community was strongly cohesive.
from The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer; Paladin; Great Britain; 1971
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