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Children should be homeschooled tbh, by their mothers mostly with the help of the father (but he's at work all day so it really should fall on the mother.)

Well people wanted women in the work place and as a result you are now going to have children that are developmentally stunted, because people think that the state can raise their children at the same quality as their mothers.

You individually don't make as much as you should because the labor pool is twice of what it should be. You then can't afford living and now your partner needs to pick up a job. Who watches the kids then? No one, the state watches them, in their institutions that were designed to turn children into factory workers.

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>No one, the state watches them, in their institutions that were designed to turn children into factory workers.

I was watched by my grandparents when both of my parents worked :comfyeyes:
@splitshockvirus @rootbsd it was the norm where I grew up. Either that, or we went to the neighbors. Sometimes their children went to our place when their parents either needed to work or to go out or something.

The real tragedy isn't that both parents can work. This is more or less fine. The real tragedy is the loss of extended families living nearby (living together is hell) and destruction of social ties between neighbors.

For the latter, I blame the internet. Before its ubiquitous spread people had no choice but talk to each other, facing isolation otherwise. Now you can just open whatsapp or telegram or whatever when you need a human contact, you can go out with your friends living across the city without having to plan it in advance, etc.

When I was a kid 20 years ago, it was a norm to be invited to dinner by our neighbors. Now that I'm an adult, this hasn't ever happened to me (although I crashed several parties uninvited, but this is just me).

This is my take on these things. There isn't just one aspect at fault, it's a more complex issue.
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> Now you can just open whatsapp or telegram or whatever when you need a human contact, you can go out with your friends living across the city
Not only that! This was parodied in many comedy shows, when a family is having a dinner, but no one's talking, everyone's just using their phone — they don't want to interact even with the ones in the same room. People learned to do better since then I think, but it was a real problem a decade ago.
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