| This is really a loaded article giving a false dilemma fallacy, and seems like projection from a lonely person. A nuclear family doesn't inherently make us miserable, nor does it force us to avoid our extended family.
No one is stopping the author from meeting other moms or other people. In my town, many moms (of many different races too) meet up at the local coffee shop, they trade tips, setup play dates, and sometimes they even go shopping together. She could visit her extended family, she could make friends, she could try to be part of her community. This kind of stuff doesn't magically happen even in the asian communities, where we live in extended families. Plus even in extended families we have different griefs, interfamily conflict is a common. EDIT:
Another comment now dead mentioned suburban nation.
Its a good but biased book. It gives some good explanations of how housing subdivisions, shopping centers, office parks, civic institutions, and roadways affect people. |