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hot take that “therapy culture” is making the bar for good parenting seem unattainable

hot take that “therapy culture” is making the bar for good parenting seem unattainable

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/opinion/therapy-estrangement-childless-millennials.html

this usually works to circumvent paywalls https://archive.is/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/opinion/therapy-estrangement-childless-millennials.html

but tl;dr millennial / gen-z attitudes trace everything to childhood trauma. author thinks it’s unfair to parents and might be linked to high modern rates of childlessness

@farcaster dev / dad / books, cooks, ski, code ~ there are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant

This is being framed all wrong, you just have to front-load all the trauma so it's latent. Like a treasure map, that way they have something to blame their failures on in therapy and something to uncover if they're ever on reality TV.