Tilde Lowengrimm on Nostr: The ideal of the nuclear family — of two parents raising their kids alone in their ...

The ideal of the nuclear family — of two parents raising their kids alone in their own home with a two car garage — that nonsense was invented less than a century ago. It's not a law of nature. It's not how people have always lived. It's an outlier among the ways that families have been organized.

And there's nothing wrong with it, if that's how you like things! The problem is that we've fundamentally reorganized a great deal of society around the concept, treating it as not just normal but as the only thing. Most housing is built with this assumed default. Healthcare is rationed this way.

It's an idea that's ossified and trapped us in this narrow mold. The same way that most every US city has been reorganized around the car so that anyone who doesn't drive is working with one hand behind our back. (Though cars are obviously much worse in many ways).