I just came on here to say I hate the nuclear family. I actually think with the current status of our world, if you're choosing to have children, it's purely for selfish reasons. Youre thinking of what that child can fulfill within you, but not what kind of world are we passing down to the next generation. And news flash. It's not much of anything. Science predicts we run out of clean drinking water within the next few years and with the AI data centers, that is just accelerating the process. We are about to breach a water bankruptcy, and you're still thinking of having that child? How wildly irresponsible of you.
Oftentimes myself, I'm very resentful of my own parents for bringing me here to this world where I'm forced to play a giant game of monopoly I don't want to play, and I can't simply live a life within my OWN parameters. No. Just those set by the 1%. Wish my mom would have thought about what reality would be like for me a MAJORITY of my adult life, and not that she was just excited to have a baby who got her to stay out of trouble herself and whom she was hoping would keep her baby daddy around. She had me because of what she thought I could do for HER. Oh and don't forget to be grateful! We all have to be grateful to be brought here to this shithole world out of the ether, and then again be grateful that our parents provided for us and didn't abuse us. Which again, newsflash, should be the bare minimum. Children shouldn't have to be grateful to be given a prosperous and full life. They should just be given one!
And on top of it all, the nuclear family set up makes for complete loneliness and isolation!! Not only do the people I know with children complain that they are so lonely and no one ever invites them out, but every time I do try to make plans or invite those with kids I know to a function- it's always rejected. So why do we even bother trying??
Nuclear families also complain that there's no longer "the village" to help raise their kids. But just because two people decided to have a child and I know them (and was obviously not part in the decision of them having children), now I'm also forced to be part of your village? I choose not to have kids myself, but I have to be part of someone else's decision to have kids and help them also raise them, again without my consent?
I'm just trying to live a life where other people's obligations aren't forced upon me, and I can move through this world on solely choices of my own consent. But with the forced monopoly game, and the forced village I'm supposed to be part of.
Not to mention heaven forbid you as someone who is childless needs your friends, they're also nowhere to be found because they're too busy playing nuclear family.
I'm over it all.