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hinted at familial estrangement, which makes things much worse This article appeared on HN a few weeks ago: https://www.city-journal.org/decline-of-family-lone

• cydonian_monk 7y ago
  Wow, I missed that one. The first several paragraphs make it read like something I need to sit down and give some undivided focus. Seems very well written. I can certainly offer some anecdata to it. My family died 20 years ago with my grandmother. (Or rather it _really_ died when the question came up of who should care for my Alzheimer's-afflicted grandfather.) Before then we were a tightly-knit group; after, a rapidly unrolled ball of yarn. And as the only child of two divorced (since I was 2 weeks old!) and bitter parents, that was basically it for me. I'm occasionally in contact with a couple of my cousins, but largely I seem to have just ceased to exist to most of them. Guess I fit the new statistic.