From my experience, the people who have therapists tend to either be far from family, not close with family, and/or from a dysfunctional family. In a statistic

From my experience, the people who have therapists tend to either be far from family, not close with family, and/or from a dysfunctional family. In a statistical sense, the role of the family therapist was probably traditionally filled by women - but now those women have real jobs - and the family doesn't have a part-time therapist as available anymore (on average). At least in my family - it is astounding the difference between my grandmother and her daughters. Anecdata of one family. My Grandma was a legendarily empathetic. Maybe no one could fill her shoes? But it seems like especially tough shoes to fill when you already have a full-time job...