Strong agreement on all of that. Plus I'd add lack of adequate social safety net and free/low cost assistance/activities for nuclear families and single parents.
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Dude, parenting is still a shitshow in Norway where both of those things are in abundance.
Add to that wildly mission creepy CPS getting more and more brazen about snatching kids for minor parenting misdemeanours, and it's no fun to parent here.
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Well, I can tell you it would at least help in my (American) case, but yeah, there are deeper problems.
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Older kids go away most of the day and are basically tortured in day prison, come home and hardly know you - and vice-versa.
Before that it's just this lump of expectations, needs and demands following you around literally 24/7, waking you at night, and no reprieve in sight.
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Human coexistence only works in larger units. Kid goes to bother grandparents, uncles, siblings. Mutual validation and bonding occurs.
Parents get a reprieve. Can live their own lives. Spend time together. Fuck. Sleep, occasionally.
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