@Tfmonkey While we need to have strong families in order to have a more stable society, we should not just be thinking of the nuclear family. Yes, the nuclear family is important, but we must also consider the larger extended family when it comes to family stability. This includes grandparents, of course, and when you have healthy relationships with these family members as well as other extended family members, you are more likely to have the core nuclear family fare better.
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I doubt this is by design, just as the one child policy in China was not designed to create a huge excess of boys versus girls. Regardless of intentions, the outcomes are what we should be concerned with. With possible collapse to some degree coming our way, stronger family structures are an even greater necessity.
Although if it is by design, I can see the motivation, as destroying the family gives the state far more power.
@houseoftolstoy Politicians only think in the short term, often only until the next election. By the time the average life expectancy is 25 years lower and grandparents don't exist anymore, the politicians who did this will be long gone and enjoying their lucrative pensions.
@Tfmonkey So when we have the clot shot possibly lower life expectancies, we are cutting off a critical part of the family life and structure. Good grandparents are a major asset to family success, as they can assist with caretaking of little ones (if they are good grandparents they will happily do this), provide advice to the next generation, and social support in other ways.
Yes, I am talking about the ideal family, but we may have a case where virtually NOBODY will have this available.