The driver who has caused the accident quits the scene lest it undermine her family's social standing.

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The link between family size and social standing is a subject close to my heart and goes back to my own childhood in Karakore, a small town in Ethiopia, where I grew up the eldest of seven children.

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There is a social cost to standing up for your beliefs and that social cost can be exacted within the family, the community or the workplace.

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