A lack of communities. Communal child care works great when you live in a village and you know everyone and most people around you are related to you.
We don’t have that anymore. People live in suburbs where they don’t even want to talk to their neighbours. Their relatives live far away, potentially in other provinces/states or even other countries.
Heck, a lot of people don’t even like their own relatives!
True. Gotta break out of that habit. My friends are starting quarterly block parties in our neighborhood. We can get back to it but we probably need to stop using social media so much.
Well luckily this won’t be a problem since we won’t have the money, space of career stability to have kids until we’re 40 anyway. By then they’ll have no choice but to retire.
I don’t know… I like most of my second cousins as human beings, but decidedly fewer than my first cousins. I fear my third cousins are likely to fair even less well.
What’s stopping communal childcare from becoming a thing again? This is how working parents did it for thousands of years.
A lack of communities. Communal child care works great when you live in a village and you know everyone and most people around you are related to you.
We don’t have that anymore. People live in suburbs where they don’t even want to talk to their neighbours. Their relatives live far away, potentially in other provinces/states or even other countries.
Heck, a lot of people don’t even like their own relatives!
Decades of distractions and propaganda to ensure you never speak to your neighbors.
Also zoning laws helping to destroy walkable “third places.”
True. Gotta break out of that habit. My friends are starting quarterly block parties in our neighborhood. We can get back to it but we probably need to stop using social media so much.
The grandparents who would have been available to watch the children are still working at 65 because they can’t afford to retire.
Well luckily this won’t be a problem since we won’t have the money, space of career stability to have kids until we’re 40 anyway. By then they’ll have no choice but to retire.
I imagine a mix of the already diminished size of extended family units, and the liability implications if it’s outside your own family unit.
You’re essentially just describing an unlicensed daycare if it’s not a family member, and those exist.
Gotta rebuild our community support networks. There are obstacles but it seems solvable.
Nothing. You can find communities online (I don’t have one to recommend.)
Just remember, for most of history your neighbors were at least distant relatives.
Technically speaking they still are because everyone is a relative.
Also https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_degrees_of_separation
I don’t know… I like most of my second cousins as human beings, but decidedly fewer than my first cousins. I fear my third cousins are likely to fair even less well.