And, as only humans can do, people tend to stigmatize those hailing from affected areas, making relocation even more punishing.

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Now that unmarried mothers have become the new normal, one would think that the drive to stigmatize them would ease up.

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Perhaps stigmatize means to devalue the currency of a weapon.

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People have been "re-traumatized" by the oil disaster, she says, which is why her agency recently launched a peer-to-peer counseling program to train and empower community members so they can reach out to their own and de-stigmatize the need for mental health services.

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We really need to focus on trying to make sure that people don't stigmatize the community even further.

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We can work harder at getting kids to share disturbing information with adults with the confident expectation that those adults will help not punish and stigmatize.

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