Not everybody is privileged with a functional family. Or one that is safe. Or sane. Or will accept them for who they are. Etc etc etc. The idea that "famil

Not everybody is privileged with a functional family. Or one that is safe. Or sane. Or will accept them for who they are. Etc etc etc. The idea that "family is who you got and you stick with them" is very nice if you have a great family, but please don't force this on everybody. It's very similar to the antiquated idea that you should be sad for a woman because she doesn't have a man. The problem is loneliness. By treating it as a "family" problem, any solutions will exclude people who still can't fall back on a functional/safe/sane/accepting family. I can understand it makes you sad if you have a happy family and wish this for others. But in some situations it'd be equivalent to wishing someone would stay with their abusive partner. Also, what's this about only grandparents getting to enjoy company in their old age? What about the people without children+grandchildren?? That singular fact makes their lives carbon neutral several times over, which deserves quite an amount of respect, unlike people who did it because say, they feared being alone in their old age. Which you should not underestimate as an actual reason people use. And it also does not create happy families.