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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP. This is controversial but I think part of the issue has been the multigenerational lack of large families, meaning that kids don’t have large extended families. There is nothing quite like close cousin relationships especially if they are lucky to be geographically near each other. And siblings may fight like rabid puppies between themselves but they often back each other up outside of the house. I think part of the distress is the breakdown of essentially family clans, something we literally evolved with. [/quote]

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This theory is dumb. You can have close friends that are just as close or closer than family. [/quote]

Not as kids unless those are facilitated by the parents. You do not have the relationships with other kids that are built over many years of holidays together, family dinners etc. If your parents have relationships with friends where those friends are at every family gathering, graduation, grandparent birthday, etc, they become like family. But kids can’t create that on their own.

I tend to think this concept of “chosen family” being as close as birth family just attests to the weakness of family bonds. No child can generate a “chosen family” that is anywhere near as close as a large extended family with cousins. [/quote]

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