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1 min readSep 12, 2023

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I understand what you're saying but you're missing something crucial.

It's the isolation that has American women turning away from family.

Having a family and being part of a family was supposed to benefit you too. That was the point. It was supposed to grant you safety and status.

Thing is, turns out that doesn't come from the man/husband. It comes from the extended family so much more, which was eliminsted in America with the shift to nuclear family, white picket fence suburbs after WWII.

American women have been struggling with isolation and depression ever since.

Motherhood in particular is incredibly isolating in this country. Everybody talks about the village. There is no damn village. You are in it alone, 24/7/365 with no real help but a never ending stream of gaslighting. And more often than not, a hisband who acts like an adult sized child you can't do anything with while he's turning your own kids on you.

If you bring a woman over here and set up your household the same, she's going to be just as isolated and become just as depressed.

That's a shitty thing to do to someone because you think she's pretty or more focused on family. She won't be for long. And then the same complaints will start.

Because they're valid complaints.

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