> any longer and almost no one ever was. Independence from family is a very modern American notion. For most of history and the world, family/clan interdepende

> any longer and almost no one ever was. Independence from family is a very modern American notion. For most of history and the world, family/clan interdependence was/is a major component of culture. Modern left-leaning societies installed government-run interdependence to replace the clan (and some rare far-left governments displaced the family)