also you should love them for it, can't see what could go wrong with this, surely it won't affect people in the long term

EDIT

this sort of opened a can of worms so i'm gonna read some theory and so should you

    • SocialistDad [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      The solution is to make parental education and training free and widely available. Also mental healthcare for the parents who are passing on generational trauma because they haven’t dealt with their own shit. And ideally the ability for people to socialize more so they can support each other’s kids as well in short bursts

    • carbohydra [des/pair]
      hexagon
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      3 years ago

      The emotional commitment issues are worth taking seriously, but I wonder if we should compare it against the unhealthy obsession with the Love Of Your Life that comes with the nuclear family. Half of marriages end in divorce, and those that stay married often end up resenting each other.

      They probably intended more of a "everyone rotates nannying roughly equally" which wouldn't have that problem. I wonder if something can be salvaged from their attempt or we need an entirely new form.

    • jkfjfhkdfgdfb [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      are the commitment issues really issues though

      being different in that way does not have to be a bad thing