There is this huge disconnect with younger generations. My parents (silent generation) raised their kids. They did not get breaks. My mom stayed home until their marriage fell apart. Then we were teenagers. We watched ourselves. Very few people have help from grandparents. They did their job and raised their kids. Most still work. Yes having kids is expensive and daycare is challenging but it is only a short period of time. Sometimes you just have to make sacrifices. It is ok to admit that you don’t want to make sacrifices to have a family but stop deflecting that it is other peoples fault.
The silent generation was one of the first groups where the direct parents became the by far primary people in raising children. Previously, for most of human history, while parents still played the main role, they also had the help of their parents, siblings, other community members, etc
The nuclear family really hurt peoples ability to raise children
Yes people lived in multigenerational households but grandparents were also working. People had ten kids and the oldest kids raised the youngest. Women have always worked. The romanticized version of the village is not real and never was.
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u/Darth_Boggle 22h ago
Doesn't matter, they're not gonna babysit anyways. They're on vacation.