Feminist on Incest: "the incest taboo can be destroyed only by destroying the nuclear family as the primary institution of the culture" (Andrea Dworkin, 1974) (self.politics)

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[-] MeetMeAtTheMovies@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

If I’m not mistaken there have been some family abolitionists who tried to raise kids without parents. Turns out that’s exactly how you breed kids with attachment disorders. Young kids use their relationship with their primary caretakers as a template for the rest of the major relationships in their life.

[-] tithonis@hexbear.net 12 points 2 months ago

The nuclear family is a historical aberration and it's not unusual for infants to have multiple primary caregivers that they can rely on to get their needs reliably met.

Attachment theory as popularly understood is basically astrology for how you and your mommy got along before you were 18 months old. Attachment is at minimum a dyadic process; an attachment "style" is something that emerges from the social interaction of two or more people.

I could go on at length here.