“We were conditioned to feel that we couldn’t really depend on people—that, even as children, asking someone for a meal or for… — J.D. Vance Copy Share Image
“Not all of the white working class struggles. I knew even as a child that there were two separate sets of mores… — J.D. Vance Copy Share Image
“How much of our lives, good and bad, should we credit to our personal decisions, and how much is just the inheritance… — J.D. Vance Copy Share Image
“I knew even as a child that there were two separate sets of mores and social pressures. My grandparents embodied one type:… — J.D. Vance Copy Share Image
“Significant stress in early childhood,” they write, “. . . result[s] in a hyperresponsive or chronically activated physiologic stress response, along with… — J.D. Vance Copy Share Image
“tried to go to a counselor, but it was just too weird. Talking to some stranger about my feelings made me want… — J.D. Vance Copy Share Image
“ACEs are traumatic childhood events, and their consequences reach far into adulthood. The trauma need not be physical. The following events or… — J.D. Vance Copy Share Image
“Psychologists call the everyday occurrences of my and Lindsay’s life “adverse childhood experiences,” or ACEs. ACEs are traumatic childhood events, and their… — J.D. Vance Copy Share Image
“children who experience multiple transitions in family structure may fare worse developmentally than children raised in stable two-parent families and perhaps even… — J.D. Vance Copy Share Image
“The number of working-class whites in high-poverty neighborhoods is growing. In 1970, 25 percent of white children lived in a neighborhood with… — J.D. Vance Copy Share Image
“No person’s childhood gives him or her a perpetual moral get-out-of-jail-free card—not Lindsay, not Aunt Wee, not me, and not Mom.” — J.D. Vance Copy Share Image
“In France, the percentage of children exposed to three or more maternal partners is 0.5 percent—about one in two hundred. The second… — J.D. Vance Copy Share Image
“number of working-class whites in high-poverty neighborhoods is growing. In 1970, 25 percent of white children lived in a neighborhood with poverty” — J.D. Vance Copy Share Image
“Wed don't need to live like the elites of California, New York, or Washington, D.C. We don't need to work a hundred hours a… — J.D. Vance Copy Share Image
“Within two generations, the transplanted hillbillies had largely caught up to the native population in terms of income and poverty level.” — J.D. Vance Copy Share Image
“Powerful people sometimes do things to help people like me without really understanding people like me.” — J.D. Vance Copy Share Image
“Research does reveal a genetic disposition to substance abuse, but those who believe their addiction is a disease show less of an inclination to… — J.D. Vance Copy Share Image
“the first impulse is escape, but people who lurch toward the exit rarely choose the right door.” — J.D. Vance Copy Share Image
“was my first indication that the policies of Mamaw’s “party of the working man”—the Democrats—weren’t all they were cracked up to be. Political scientists… — J.D. Vance Copy Share Image
“A young man was sitting at home when a terrible rainstorm began. Within hours, the man’s house began to flood, and someone came to… — J.D. Vance Copy Share Image
“As a culture, we had no heroes. Certainly not any politician--Barack Obama was then the most admired man in America (and likely still is),… — J.D. Vance Copy Share Image
“To this day, being able to “take advantage” of someone is the measure in my mind of having a parent. For me and Lindsay,… — J.D. Vance Copy Share Image
“As one book, Appalachian Odyssey, notes about the influx of hill people to Detroit: “It was not simply that the Appalachian migrants, as rural… — J.D. Vance Copy Share Image
“As a 2011 Brookings Institution study found, “compared to 2000, residents of extreme-poverty neighborhoods in 2005–09 were more likely to be white, native-born, high… — J.D. Vance Copy Share Image
