I feel like what OP is lamenting is kind of like the washing machine thing. When we invented washing machines it was expected to save housewives from having to work as hard, but instead it freed them to do other work. Everyone will always work (or parent) as much as they can, but depending on the environment (and technology) the expectations shift.
I don’t think so. What I’m lamenting is that our society is so far removed from having actual community that people can’t even imagine what life was like back then when parents wouldn’t give any thought to kicking their 9 year old kids out of the house to go run around their cities because the parents knew that everyone in town knew who their kids were and everyone looked after each other, and especially the kids.
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I feel like what OP is lamenting is kind of like the washing machine thing. When we invented washing machines it was expected to save housewives from having to work as hard, but instead it freed them to do other work. Everyone will always work (or parent) as much as they can, but depending on the environment (and technology) the expectations shift.
I don’t think so. What I’m lamenting is that our society is so far removed from having actual community that people can’t even imagine what life was like back then when parents wouldn’t give any thought to kicking their 9 year old kids out of the house to go run around their cities because the parents knew that everyone in town knew who their kids were and everyone looked after each other, and especially the kids.
That really was normal for most of human history.