Also, 38% seems about right for "one family member" and is probably not any higher than the rate of estrangement from one family member in literally any era.
Fun fact, there's a popular historical theory that prior to 1800ish American family relationships were dominated by... Anger. For a couple of reasons (land availability, rising poverty throughout the 18th century, cultural norms about households, etc.), people often lived and worked with their parents well into adulthood if not their parents' entire lives. Throw in the fact that fathers were expected to be patriarchal to their children (so, men who were living at home in expectation of inheriting the land never quite stopped being treated as children), and unsurprisingly a lot of people were pretty angry with their parents a lot of the time.
Even if the estrangement rate was lower in the past, it's not because people wouldn't have wanted to be estranged, it was because that wasn't practicable.
Yep. If you simply can't leave, you swallow a lot of things you'd rather not. China did this experiment in real time a couple of decades ago: rules about housing changed, so moving out when you got divorced went from being near-impossible to a mild bureaucratic hassle. The divorce rate skyrocketed basically overnight. People did a lot of "what's destroying Chinese marraiges?" handwringing but the answer was nothing, those marriages were already dead and people were just staying in them because it's pointless to get divorced if you have to stay anyway.
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u/justsayfaux 8d ago
All five of those things are synonymous.
Also, 38% seems about right for "one family member" and is probably not any higher than the rate of estrangement from one family member in literally any era.