[russellallen]

Its interesting that we've managed to build a society where people consider it normal that the most fundamental activity possible for maintaining that society requires potentially sacrificing position and status.

As a thought experiment, try explaining the above post to a 13th century feudal Lord.

[prodigal_erik]

From what I've read, feudal lords normally focused on affairs of state and carousing and let trusted servants tend to their heirs until they were ready to start learning their roles, while peasants mostly treated their kids as unpaid farmhands. Even a couple of generations ago people wrote of growing up with a distant parent and mostly spent time with other kids. Parenthood as the main focal point and time commitment for the lives of most adults seems pretty recent, and I worry that people may be neglecting the unique ideas they're called to create in favor of largely doing the same things everyone else is.