Every time I go to work, I start getting ready and my son tries to stop me. He tells me, “Daddy, you have noooo work.” And every time I question what my ancestors could possibly have been thinking to trade family farms where they all worked together for these lonely urban lives.
That’s precisely what I’m talking about, yes. Attachment problems from separated families are shown to vastly increase the development of mental disorders.
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It’s a little deeper than ancestors just picking up and leaving farms. It usually wasn’t a choice. The Dust Bowl and Great Depression led many families to lose everything. They headed to cities because they heard there were jobs there and they were desperate.
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They worked isolated jobs in huge factories for near-slave wages. They worked themselves to death to provide for their families and no longer had time, energy, or softness of spirit to show affection and warmth with their kids. Kids either realized why, or didn’t and we’re hurt.
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