It is well known that the family is the social repair apparatus of a society. And so, above all in the economically failed eurozone, especially in southern europe, the family is once again the refuge in which young adults try to shape their lives. Job prospects are poor, incomes are low, and it is almost impossible to finance a life of one's own.
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63 sats \ 2 replies \ @OT 20 Jun
It's a good thing. The only difference is that European houses are built for this. Grand parents on ground level, parents on level 2, kids on level 3.
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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined 20 Jun
That's really hard to find in the US. My wife and I have been looking for houses with a main level bedroom and another master bedroom for us. We're anticipating eventually having at least one of our parents move in and our current house has lots of stairs.
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @OT 20 Jun
Yeah, in Australia the traditional Anglo houses are mostly one level. Some might have a granny flat out the back. I’ve found Europeans (or people who come from European backgrounds) to EXPECT their sons family to live with them. They build bigger houses or more levels to encourage this tradition
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42 sats \ 10 replies \ @Satosora 20 Jun
Its possible, you just have to be willing to make sacrifices.
Those arent being made, so they have to live at their parents.
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70 sats \ 9 replies \ @TomK OP 20 Jun
But this also shows me that the family as a social institution could make a big comeback in the coming crisis. this will help with healing
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42 sats \ 5 replies \ @clr 20 Jun
Sorry for the question, but I can't help it.
What if one happens to be born in a not-so-awesome family? How can family help with healing if family is oftentimes what is making one sick?
Yes, family is part of the so called natural order, but some families are far from ideal, and are a source of sickness, not healing. Do you have something to tell to those cases?
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42 sats \ 0 replies \ @Satosora 20 Jun
Some families are chosen, not fate.
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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @TomK OP 20 Jun
Unfortunately, I am not a social therapist, and I myself have experienced many a difficult situation in my childhood and family, but I see no other way than a return to family structures, healthy communities and more social contact between families. Maybe that's the solution? There will always be problem families, but their number decreases when the economic environment is healthy
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42 sats \ 2 replies \ @clr 20 Jun freebie
I was just thinking that the family started to be destroyed a century ago or so. How can conservatives speak about 'family' when a regular kid spends 6-8 hours a day learning mostly useless stuff and being indoctrinated at school, plus the time spent going and coming, then ~2 hours a day of extracurricular activities, plus another 2 hours of homework and the only interactions with parents are talking about your 'progress' at school and then 'it's time to brush your teeth and go to sleep'?
The current state of society is the result of what has been built during many decades. Maybe the wokies are just finishing the job so that real families (not the fake version promoted by traditionalists) can be reborn from the ashes. Burn it to the ground. Creative destruction, they say.
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20 sats \ 1 reply \ @TomK OP 20 Jun
I remember that more than 25 years ago I wrote a major paper at university on the subject of the decline of the family and the rise of social insurance. The thesis was that social insurance actually wanted to compensate for the mental and caring tasks of the family and in this way destroyed this fundamental structure.
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42 sats \ 0 replies \ @Satosora 21 Jun
You saw the signs so many years ago.
I saw the signs as I was a kid, now it is more prevalent.
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42 sats \ 2 replies \ @Satosora 20 Jun
True, that is also important.
But I think it made quite a comeback during the covid pandemic.
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20 sats \ 1 reply \ @TomK OP 20 Jun
when you see the media violence with which these cultural massists and vokers work against the family, you can get scared. but i remain very optimistic that people will return to their natural lives
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Satosora 20 Jun
Its slowly getting back to normal.
I hope they have learned about the medias manipulation.
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42 sats \ 0 replies \ @halalmoney 20 Jun
This is so sad. A multi-generational market failure within our money and our housing systems.
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