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Sad_Face posted...

This is bloody cool. I recall hearing that the Catholic church also pioneered the nuclear family structure (husband, wife, and children they bore together as opposed to a clan based family that includes extended family members) to allow for nimble family movement in search of superior economic opportunities. This allowed the rise of journeymen and allowed people to learn trades and crafts under experts unrelated to them. Prior to this, skills were mostly taught and passed down from generation to generation within a single family.

So I can see how your link ties into this; reducing the amount of ties to allow someone to walk their own path.

That's cool and all, except that communal/extended family helping raise children has been demonstrated as more beneficial to both the children and the parents.

It's also rich that it's the Catholic Church who concocted this as it opens the door for more child abuse when it's only 2 adults in close proximity with the children on a regular basis and so are more easily able to get away with it.