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Parents are spending more time playing with their kids, instead of letting kids just play together. Kids depend on parents for rides to anything that's outside the family compound. And to top it all off, spouses are expected to be everything to each other in every way. I think family worlds are much, much smaller than they used to be and it's leaving the adults very unhappy.
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Parents are spending more time playing with their kids, instead of letting kids just play together. Kids depend on parents for rides to anything that's outside the family compound. And to top it all off, spouses are expected to be everything to each other in every way. I think family worlds are much, much smaller than they used to be and it's leaving the adults very unhappy.
THIS. I'm constantly amazed by how little parents actually do. "Oh, we don't go out to eat/go to the movies/attend concerts or live shows/do anything anymore since we had the kids." Even the most minor non-kid-centered pleasures, like reading a novel or watching a (non-kid) movie at home, are suddenly struck from their lives. I can't even imagine, or want to. It is no wonder people are eaten up by resentment and boredom. It is no wonder they have raging midlife crises and run out on their families.
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Parents are spending more time playing with their kids, instead of letting kids just play together. Kids depend on parents for rides to anything that's outside the family compound. And to top it all off, spouses are expected to be everything to each other in every way. I think family worlds are much, much smaller than they used to be and it's leaving the adults very unhappy.
THIS. I'm constantly amazed by how little parents actually do. "Oh, we don't go out to eat/go to the movies/attend concerts or live shows/do anything anymore since we had the kids." Even the most minor non-kid-centered pleasures, like reading a novel or watching a (non-kid) movie at home, are suddenly struck from their lives. I can't even imagine, or want to. It is no wonder people are eaten up by resentment and boredom. It is no wonder they have raging midlife crises and run out on their families.