Throughout A Doll's House there are reminders that there are fates and hardships much worse than anything in the Helmer household, which is no more than a doll's house.
Families with inadequate resources typically feed the children first, shielding them from hardship as much as possible.
Similar measures, quietly published in the past, suggest among other things that safety-net programs have played a large and mostly overlooked role in restraining hardship: as much as half of the reported rise in poverty since 2006 disappears.
Not surprising, then, that eating meat has become a symbol of triumph over hardship, as much a part of China's transformation as the towering skyscrapers and glistening cities. Grandparents who once went hungry stuff their grandchildren with the treats they lacked and top of the list is pork.
The whole thing is indulgent and excessive when compared to the hardship befalling much of the world.
Republican leaders love this tale of hardship so much they appointed Noem to the committee that negotiated the final version of their tax legislation, which will make the estate tax far more lenient, a change Republicans say will protect farms and small businesses.
In addition, people with greater economic hardship endured much more pressures and depressions, which in turn affected health.
Elderly Chinese with less subjective economic hardship reported much better self-rated health (SRH) (OR 1.57 4.70, all p<0.01)< and higher Medical Outcomes Study short form (SF 12 scores (β 2.56 10.26, all p<0.01) than those with economic hardship.
It wasn't the physical hardships so much as the strangeness of everything, which made me strange to myself, and instilled a sense of loneliness that never left while I lived there, nor for some time afterward.
Initial indications are that the regime is gearing up public opinion to withstand economic hardships, with much exaltation of the nation's history of resisting the onslaught of external foes.
