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This problem is not so hard to fix, neither so easy. First, raising children shouldn't be an onerous business for two or just one; the current monogamous famil
by dsign 4y ago
This problem is not so hard to fix, neither so easy.
First, raising children shouldn't be an onerous business for two or just one; the current monogamous family is a construct from a few religions with outsize cultural influence (Paradoxically, in the absence of contraceptives monogamous families are good for population growth: you use the bare minimum of adults to raise more than a dozen kids. Ideal stuff if your goal is to go to war with the tribe on the other side of the Nile).
Second... well, second we should forsake heaven, and remain here. Let's keep working on life-extension and rejuvenation, and abolish death.
- tetris11 4y agoA return to co-parenting should absolutely happen. Back in the villages, kids were raised by a number of adults by proxy of kids staying overnight at each others houses, and this exists still in many societies. The atomisation of the western world has forced parents to singlehandedly raise their kids and enact on them their specific faults and biases, whilst crippling everyone mentally and emotionally