We all keep talking about providing more facilities to working mothers but no-one talks about providing the social structure to keep previous generations together with current generation. Its like a taboo to advocate grandparents staying with parents and children.
There was a reason my parents could devote their energies towards whatever they were doing outside of raising me without having to go to extremes of waiting till their 40s etc - my grandma/aunts were with us. I was basically taken care of by a different loving person every few hours whenever my mother was busy. Granted my parents didn't have to deal with the stress of startups/corporate grinds but I'm sure they had their own share of stresses of a different kind (e.g. none of the technological comforts/tools we take for granted today). But atleast they got to deal with those stresses without just having each other for support. Sure, there were conflicts but then those are everywhere anyway. Unfortunately with people growing up in nuclear families, they do not have the background/emotional tools/training to deal with such conflicts creating a self-perpetuating cycle.
There was a reason my parents could devote their energies towards whatever they were doing outside of raising me without having to go to extremes of waiting till their 40s etc - my grandma/aunts were with us. I was basically taken care of by a different loving person every few hours whenever my mother was busy. Granted my parents didn't have to deal with the stress of startups/corporate grinds but I'm sure they had their own share of stresses of a different kind (e.g. none of the technological comforts/tools we take for granted today). But atleast they got to deal with those stresses without just having each other for support. Sure, there were conflicts but then those are everywhere anyway. Unfortunately with people growing up in nuclear families, they do not have the background/emotional tools/training to deal with such conflicts creating a self-perpetuating cycle.