Sustainable Development Goals
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The nuclear family is a modern twist, only exceeding extended family units in the 50s.
The extended family lets the grandparents participate and share responsibilities for raising and education and childcare, giving some parents some relief in terms of time, and being far cheaper than unnecessary child care run by young dropout on min wage trying to wrangle 20 other terrors. In turn when the grandparents become even more elderly the wife can then care for them, which is far cheaper and more humane than letting some 3rd worlder smack em about and neglect em for an extortionate fee. And that's before we even get into housing costs.
The nuclear family is a trap, there is no benefit to anyone.
Return to tradition, the extended family is the way.
See, I’d be fine with this, but most who say ‘end the nuclear family’ just want a further descent into degenerate atomized consumptive individualism.
Actually, I considered "nuclear families" to actually include non-breeding grandparents and older kids, but not breeding-age siblings (especially if they're married and have kids themselves), and definitely not cousins living together, that stuff is "extended" families.
And the harem system is for chimps.