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Ps. Again, for the sake of clarification, I should say that when I wrote "if there is any kind of organized support for troubled persons / families," the term support doesn't refer strictly to handing out money or other kinds of financial subsidiaries.

I'm thinking in a formal, abstract way. If there is an organized group of people, who say to all the members of their group: "See, if you don't work we won't give you any financial support. We expect every member of the group to earn their own living and to support their own off-spring, and to do that you'd better work to get money." - now, in my eyes, that counts as an "organized form of support". The group is giving some kind of cultural message which is supposed to encourage the group members, to help the group members to have better lives, to empower the group members to help themselves instead of passively waiting for external donations. So, a lack of financial benefits combined with a cultural message is, to me, a form of support. And I have no doubts than in some groups and in some cultures that way of organizing the group support is better than simply handing out financial benefits.

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