[mensetmanusman]

Independent in the context of modern capitalism means attaching to more and more support nodes as everything that was serviced by family/clan in the past is replaced by individual entities that can be activated with cash transactions. (Everything except actually caring for you as a person, those require a strong third place).

[lynx97]

I take a cash transaction over my patronising and frankly borderline crazy mother every day. This iddealisation of family has to stop, it is a cruel lie.

[mensetmanusman]

The genes say otherwise. Strong families are the only ones surviving prosperity induced population collapse globally.

[nandomrumber]

Infect, Israel is the only Western nation that has a fertility rate above replacement.

Probably because it is predominantly comprised of Jews and Muslims, who seem to value family much more than us heathens.

[mensetmanusman]

The orthodox communities in the western countries are growing, but not at a faster rate than the secularists disappear.