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There is a better way to parent than the nuclear family

• arclein

The nuclear family can be extraordinarily dangerous for children. Some - often children of educated and privileged families - are buckling under pressure to succeed and are committing suicide at alarming rates. Those in the United States who experience parental divorce are overwhelmingly being raised in poverty, which has lifelong ramifications on their health, wealth and education. At the extreme, some 500 children a year are murdered by their parents in the US, and millions more are abused and neglected, with inadequate systems to help them until damage is done.