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Hmong Middle Adulthood

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Middle adulthood for the Hmong is not talked about as much as childhood and older adulthood. It has been said “adults have had little formal schooling” (Hmong Americans 2012). Many Hmong adults do receive education, along with their children that they have. What the Hmong know is agriculture and that is all they carry out (Hmong Americans 2012). Not much education is required for farming so throughout their middle adulthood, Hmong families work their farms until they can no longer work.

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