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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Intensive parenting causes the lack of support as parents don’t have time to have their own friends or their own lives. Too busy cultivating their kids so they can grab a spot in the shrinking middle class or smaller but bigger than it used to be UMC.

Some activities come with a support system though. Can’t deny that.

I’m getting my kids and I involved in a Church. [/quote]

I literally don't even understand how to make close friends and have/be a support system in our modern society. We are not religious. We've made some okay friends with neighbors and through sports, but I wouldn't call any of these people a "support system" and none of them were around before my kids went to elementary school. [/quote]

I’ve lived in my current (non DC area) only about a year and have a network of close friends.  Some through church yes.  Others through neighborhood get togethers, kids’ school functions and volunteer work.  You have to put in the effort to get results - you have to join groups, go out, be extroverted (at least at first).  And yes, some areas of the country are friendlier and more open to meeting new people than others…that’s geographically specific, [b]not an indictment of “modern society[/b].”[/quote]

Then why is there study after study and article after article lamenting how lonely we all are?  [/quote]

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