Parents Are Sacrificing Their Social Lives on the Altar of Intensive Parenting
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Parents Are Sacrificing Their Social Lives on the Altar of Intensive Parenting
What has actually happened is that the time parents (especially moms) spend with kids has gotten... lonelier. The demise of American friendship has made American parenting a much harder, lonelier, more confusing, more isolating task.
Lyman Stone 石來民 🦬🦬🦬x.comFeeding this crisis is the fact that we are spending more time alone than ever before, and as a result, care, whether giving or receiving, has become a less organic part of our lives. For much of history, it was difficult for humans to go it alone. Goods and services were more expensive in relative terms, and running a household was extremely
... See moreOf course families have fallen apart in every generation. But even a few decades ago children from broken homes had communities, they had neighbourhoods. Now our families fall apart and there is nothing, nobody, to catch us. We live far from extended family. We are more estranged than ever. And I can’t get across how little familiarity Gen Z has
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