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Post Capitalist Parenting Pt. 2: Reimagining the Family w/ Kristen Ghodsee

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Rethinking Family: Alternatives to Nuclear Parenting

This chapter explores post-capitalist parenting, challenging traditional family structures and highlighting diverse child-rearing practices such as alloparenting and collectivization of domestic work. It discusses the benefits of community involvement in child-rearing and examines historical examples that showcase successful collective parenting models. By critiquing the isolating nature of nuclear families and the pressures of consumer culture, the chapter calls for a reconsideration of societal values around parenting and happiness.

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