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    ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Mar 2

    ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Pureblooded Marmot Respecter 🌲 🦅 ❄ 🏔  🌊

    long thread of whining bc people who have worked their whole life and raised one set of kids don't want to provide free labor to help raise a second set I wish that society was more pro-natal but I dislike attacking someone else as a "shit grandparent" bc no free labor.https://twitter.com/UpperLowerClass/status/1498888427814600704 …

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    Pureblooded Marmot Respecter 🌲 🦅 ❄ 🏔  🌊 @UpperLowerClass
    Pretty large cohort of Xers and older Millenial parents whose own parents are absolute dogshit grandparents and this goes largely undiscussed because it's uncouth to besmirch family who were "good enough."
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      2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Mar 2

        2/ I remember reading some etiquette discussion board 20 years back where someone was arguing that a "money tree" at a wedding was just pure trash. It's not part of my tradition, but it apparently is in some other cultures...and so be it There is no objective one-size-fits all

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      3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Mar 2

        3/ Maybe some cultures want to give piles of cash to newly weds. Maybe other cultures want to give physical gifts. Maybe other cultures require the father of the groom to give gifts to establish the household. The way that these things get divided up is absolutely arbitrary.

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      4. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Mar 2

        4/ One culture may have grandparents strongly involved in raising grandkids (passing forward the gift of labor that they themselves received when they were young parents). Other cultures may NOT have that norm.

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      5. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Mar 2

        5/ Saying "anyone who does not arrange obligations in EXACTLY THE WAY THAT I CONSIDER NORMAL is absolute human garbage" is provincial, ignorant, obnoxious, and sticking their nose in other people's business.

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      2. Sardaukar‏ @Sardaukar1337 Mar 2
        Replying to @MorlockP

        Grandparents have obligations to grandchildren, just like parents have obligations to children. They aren't as severe, but they do exist. Viewing the totality of family life through the prism of economic exchange is pretty vile.

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      1. random_scrub‏ @random_scrub Mar 2
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        I can see both sides. Yeah, expecting free labor is generally bad. But in many cases this is more like boomers revising the (implicit) rules of the game to favor themselves, as they do in politics. They got support as parents from local family networks they refuse to pay forward.

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      2. Sam Hardwick‏ @SKRHardwick Mar 2
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        Can't have a very pro-natal society without a belief in duty to help your children with their children. It's just a huge practical thing.

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      3. Sam Hardwick‏ @SKRHardwick Mar 2
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        Btw, one big problem is high child-bearing age. 80 yo grandma obviously can't be much help.

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