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    A low-skilled poor single parent without access to decent... — Carmelics
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    Supports→Structural conditions such as poverty and absence of social provisions can force individuals into tragic choices between basic needs and basic moral duties.

    A low-skilled poor single parent without access to decent social provisions cannot simultaneously hold a job (to generate income) and provide adequate care and supervision for their children.

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    Simultaneously(as used to contrast with how past industrial change affected jobs slowly over time)
    At the same time, rather than one after another.
    Social provisions(used in political and social philosophy to discuss what society provides for its citizens)
    Government or community support systems like childcare, healthcare, welfare payments, or public services that help people meet their basic needs.
    adequate care and supervision

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    (as used in ethics and family policy)
    The level of attention, safety, and support that children need to be healthy, protected, and properly guided—like making sure they're fed, safe, and have adult attention.
    cannot simultaneously(as used to describe a logical or practical impossibility)
    A claim that two things are impossible to do together at the same time—suggesting they're in conflict with each other.

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    Thus, according to the capability approach, the ends of well-being freedom, justice, and development should be conceptualized in terms of people’s capabilities. Moreover, what is relevant is not only which opportunities are open to me each by themselves, hence in a piecemeal way, but rather which combinations or sets of potential functionings are open to me. For example, suppose I am a low-skilled poor single parent who lives in a society without decent social provisions. Take the following func

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