I have no idea why you are downvoted. My parents’ generation immigrated to the US and UK, and were generally not rich, not even middle class. We could not stay in hotels, but because of having big families, we got to vacation all over and save money on hotels because we would just sleep on the floor next to each other.
That type of tight relationship is hard to form outside of family.
Probably because those usually talking about "extinction" are dogwhistling a race based extinction and are parroting white supremacist talking points. I can't tell if this poster is doing so, but now you know!
Indeed, I see this quite often, as if some race based boogeyman will take over. It is often an attitude displayed against those with high religiosity, even though the world's overall population growth rate is decreasing and reversing, as even the most religious areas of the world are not having as many kids, predictably because they're getting richer.
Getting richer is correlated to not having children, but most of these dog whistlers assume a monotonically increasing number of births, not realizing that most populations are sigmoidal, not linear; eventually, even those races these people are against will slow down having kids, that is what happens everywhere.
And yet that has nothing to do with this conversation, and neither rayiner nor I are white or any kind of race supremacists (presumably from their million posts here).
Families are unique social structures, and as much as fast and furious want people to believe a random grouping of people can be a family, the reality is that the probability of an equivalent social bond being built between people who do not share a history is low.
Honestly sounds more like basic probability—splitting up large families into small, isolated units.
I tried searching for what you’re talking about but couldn’t find anything other than stuff like “white nuclear family hegemony” vis-à-vis the tax code.
Maybe I’m just a dumb redneck who grew up around too many white supremacists. Who knows anymore. I feel like if somebody thinks white people are going extinct due to small family units they can just say it on the Internet.
That type of tight relationship is hard to form outside of family.