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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Biggest difference--people are smarter and refuse to take the abuse.

Just like there were less divorces back in the day. Didn't mean that women didn't want them[/quote]

This. Got my first job out of college in '95 making $32,000 a year, plus great insurance and 4 (!) weeks leave.

I just ghosted my family. I wasn't beholden to them anymore; I was free.

I spoke to my mother twice in the next 20 years. Never once spoke with my father or siblings again. Both parents are dead. I didn't attend either funeral and I ignored calls and texts from random unclws and aunts. My siblings are God knows where. I don't care. No one has reached out for 4 years.

What changed is people can escape now.[/quote]

Agree, this is simply a natural consequence of ordinary people having more freedom and money than ever before.

This is most likely the reason the rich (celebrities, the aristocratic class in the past) get married and divorced so many times compared to normal folk - because they can ie. they have the resources to.

I don't know whether we are more happier because of it, but to simply answer OP this is not due to growing 'family dysfunction' or whatever, it's just a consequence of more individual freedom.[/quote]

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