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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think people here don't feel the obligation to spend time with toxic or abusive people who make them miserable. Obviously, happy families usually have no issue spending time together. As for extended families living together, that's just a cultural difference in our societies. Here, extended family usually live separately unless there is a financial/medical reason not to.[/quote]

This, but also women in the United States work outside the home and are often happy to do so.  Have you noticed that the burden for caring for extended family in these "family centric" cultures falls exclusively to women?  Women care for their own children as well as their MIL and FIL, and probably their own parents as well.  That's a burden not shared by men, and one that I think many women would be happy to cast off if they were able to. [/quote]

A good point.  This model of family relies on female labor, and when given the choice, not all women would choose to take on the burden of caring for the entire family.  [/quote]

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