"Many of these people had never known standards of home life, of space, quietness and stability, which other people accepted as a matter of course. They looked out on a world of disorder and instability with different eyes, for had they not grown up with hardship by their side during the years of unemployment? To them, leaking roofs, broken windows, no schools and a nightly trek to the open fields in spring-time meant less than the loss of a job."

- Titmus, Problems of Social Policy, p. 313.