I couldn‘t find a more fitting thread title, so I post it here.
It seems WW2 changed the world in a profound way in many ways. Recently I tried to find out more about one aspect that probably changed so much globally that it can’t be underestimated and not many people think about at the same time:
As far as I know in most if not all of recorded and knowable history, in every civilization, it was practically the norm that woman stay at home especially during the rearing of children and don’t join workforces.
Thus, probably the most crucial part of nurturing/creating/educating healthy souls and minds was done at home.
All that was basically still the norm everywhere globally just before WW2 broke out. And during and after it, it changed permanently basically to the opposite (according to Grok): Now it is basically the norm worldwide that mothers don’t stay at home, and most crucially, don’t educate/nurture their own children. Instead, to one degree or the other, at the most crucial stages of development state type institutions took over the education/nurturing of children. And of course that also greatly helped to destroy basic and healthy family bonds including between the parents themselves I would think.
Here is the discussion I had with Grok about that rather profound change globally: