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I don’t think history supports this thesis. Most children went away to the cities or other countries or even other continents. Maybe if you where one of the few
by FranzFerdiNaN 3y ago
I don’t think history supports this thesis. Most children went away to the cities or other countries or even other continents. Maybe if you where one of the fewer and fewer people who still had a farm you might have one child taking it over, but if you were born in a city then that’s obviously not possible.
I guess it might be possible you moved to where one of your children lived, if you even knew where they ended up.
- Sankozi 3y agoYou are describing last 100 years of US history and it is not "most of the history". What you are describing was still not prevalent through the world like 50 years ago.
- dukeyukey 3y agoThis is very very recent North America-and-other-settler-colony history. Even today, most Americans live within 20 miles of their parents. Most people don't live in different settlements to their parents, let alone cities, let alone countries, _let alone_ continents.
- emodendroket 3y agoAnd yet we still have hospice care. It is almost like just saying your adult children should take care of it isn’t an adequate solution.
- mrguyorama 3y agoMost of the "solutions" in history were to just let unfortunate people suffer and look away while they cry out.