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This is the individualistic take. The person you're responding to is referring to how societies worked since time immemorial, prior to the advent of such stron

• TheOtherHobbes 5y ago
  You'll have to go back a very long way to find stable families that didn't have children leaving because they were bored, ambitious, abused, angry, or - in royal families - literally wanted to kill either or both of their parents and perhaps also their siblings so they could take over. One difference now is freely available contraception and a much lower birthrate, combined with more economic stability. (At least for the boomer gen.) When parents have two children and both are estranged, it's a tragedy. When parents had ten children, five of them made it to adulthood, and two decided to leave, it was acceptable attrition. The other difference is the absence of extended family and friends who can step in with childcare help. So parents + kids going through adolescence under the same roof becomes a pressure cooker. No one gets much of a break for 4-8 years.