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enriching activities previously provided by the schools.

The average American household cannot make ends meet without a dual income work situation. The added stress of trying to "do it all" takes it's toll and puts strain on the average American woman. She is juggling children, home maintenance, shopping, providing meals, and working for that necessary second income. She is volunteering at school, church and in the community to pick up the slack caused by cutbacks and downgrades in every facet of our society. A large percentage of average Americans are heads of single parent households and the stress is magnified in all areas for these individuals.

Social lives are carried out on the ball fields and in the gymnasiums of America; meals are eaten on the run. "Stressed out" is one popular buzzword of the day, and the other, "busy" promises to become a competitive sport with the frenzied, frenetic attempts to "keep up." Even leisure time and friendships are multi-tasked and prioritized.

If average Americans are "tuned in" to what it takes to survive in our modern world, they are also emotionally "disconnected" as they plug in to the technological wonders which promise to drowned all personal interaction in a sea of virtual distraction.

The definition of lazy is "not wanting to work, or inclined to be inactive."

Average Americans are not lazy by any definition, but they are inclined to be exhausted.

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