[ThoreauBred]

Did you read the bottom half of the linked website?

It clearly states more alone time does not necessarily mean they’re lonelier as individuals.

Perhaps as a species this nuclear family model we have to start with should really be giving way in later life to more autonomy?

After 20+ years being parented and pushed into team work, is it so terrible to consider enabling free agency and experience?

What makes me sad is the idea there’s objective truth to living in what we know was often an abusive and stifling lifestyle for many many people.

The easy fix: don’t personally seek a holy war where one does not exist. As soon as we start wondering what to do top down, we start focusing on arbitrary correctness and ignore the individual. Cultural “facts” always lose to facts of physical reality. No culture has found that perfect social glue. Maybe it’s a mirage fed to us through historical story, not something that is real?

[asiachick]

> After 20+ years being parented and pushed into team work, is it so terrible to consider enabling free agency and experience?

This is an entirely western or American POV. I have no idea if it came from media (movies/books telling us we should move out as soon as possible) or from advertising (because if you can get people to move out you sell more stuff. More housing, more cars, more every day appliances etc...)

In plenty of cultures there is ZERO stigma of not moving out of your birth home until you get married and that might not happen till your 30s or 40s. It's just normal.

[cmdshiftf4]

>I have no idea if it came from media (movies/books telling us we should move out as soon as possible) or from advertising (because if you can get people to move out you sell more stuff. More housing, more cars, more every day appliances etc...)

That's my instinctive suspicion personally. The Western world has long devolved into having "CONSUME" blasted at you 24/7 from 360 degrees so I've no doubt that the above is any different.

Surprised we're not being pushed into 𝚌̶𝚛̶𝚎̶𝚊̶𝚝̶𝚒̶𝚗̶𝚐̶ ̶𝚊̶𝚗̶ ̶𝚎̶𝚟̶𝚎̶𝚛̶ ̶𝚐̶𝚛̶𝚎̶𝚊̶𝚝̶𝚎̶𝚛̶ ̶𝚐̶𝚛̶𝚊̶𝚙̶𝚑̶ ̶𝚘̶𝚏̶ ̶𝚌̶𝚘̶𝚗̶𝚜̶𝚞̶𝚖̶𝚎̶𝚛̶𝚜̶ having more babies... although that corporate thirst is probably better satisfied with mass immigration and therefore more immediate dollars.

[denimnerd46]

In America it's relatively easy to move out so if you can't meet that bar it's seen as weird. In other countries it can be more difficult to so there's less pressure.

There's so much credit available for developers to build housing that it's widely available and affordable. Many countries do not have that kind of financial market.