human brains are varied and there's no one single way a family should be structured. Kids need adults who are reliably there, keep them safe and love them, and there's a ton of different forms this can take.
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My layperson opinion is that as long as there is at least one male father figure, and one female mother figure, anything is on the table - from polygamy, to diffused-parentality villages.
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Very much true. Note the social infrastructure might or might not be present for different kinds of arrangements.
Part of what makes something a good or bad choice are the community and societal resources available.
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The decision tree looks very different in Medieval Iceland than today. And medieval iceland isn't necessarily the more restrictive one on all configurations.
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Tradition is traditional because it works for the most people most of the time.
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You are not wrong.
I’d add that it can be valuable to be conscious of tradition… not to blindly follow, but rather to understand why it works for whom it does. Because we exist within a broader context than a single perspective at a particular point in our lives can grant.
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