True thred and not. This thred implies the extended fambly would act as a collection of servants, cooks and at best companions for the young nuclear "couple." It forgets the problems, and the hierarchy of traditional societies: grandmother in China, Sicily rules with iron fist
Missing from nearly all discussions of “why aren’t millennials having babies” is the fact that the thick, local, extended family—which *drastically* reduces the financial and emotional cost of having children—has almost completely collapsed in the West, particularly among whites.
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