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To think that the dream is to raise emotionally secure children and that this is one of the greatest challenges facing the world today?

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OneClearWillow · 23/06/2025 12:30

It feels like the ultimate goal is to raise kids who feel secure in themselves, emotionally healthy and self-assured. But it seems like capitalism is putting so much pressure on families that many children are growing up disconnected. Could this be one of the biggest issues in the West today? And is it a challenge that we’re really addressing?

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Locutus2000 · 23/06/2025 12:43

OneClearWillow · 23/06/2025 12:30

It feels like the ultimate goal is to raise kids who feel secure in themselves, emotionally healthy and self-assured. But it seems like capitalism is putting so much pressure on families that many children are growing up disconnected. Could this be one of the biggest issues in the West today? And is it a challenge that we’re really addressing?

Your OP is a little vague on detail and I'm not sure what the question is.

ComtesseDeSpair · 23/06/2025 12:38

But it seems like capitalism is putting so much pressure on families that many children are growing up disconnected.

I suspect that the more that we tell people that external forces, and things they have no control over, and a particular group of people, are responsible for their poor wellbeing, the poorer their wellbeing is going to become. Viewing yourself as passive and helpless and in direct opposition to your government, the society you live in, to many of the other people you live in your society with; it doesn’t make for the foundations of emotional security and self-assurance, but creates a sense of victimhood and fear.

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