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By Max Coutinho
After World War II, world governments embarked in a large-scale social experiment based on Socialist/Communist concepts. The concept of family, or tribe, was completely destroyed in order to isolate individuals to better control their mind, their opinions and their life.
After what they called the Great War, people were taught that having many kids was bad for the country, but they were not told this directly - if they had, human nature shows us that people would have made even more babies - instead, they led the people into believing it. How? By destroying the Family/Tribe System, people were left without any support to bear and raise children: so it’s either better not to have them all together or to have max. 2 (since it’s easier to manage the situation).
Before, the tribe would be there for the pregnant women of the family and after the baby was born the whole tribe would engage in raising him/her. Children would learn everything at home, everything…
Today, women get pregnant without a support system (other than what the state “provides”), then because she has to work, she has to put her baby in a nursery school (if she is lucky enough to find a vacancy); if the nursery school puts her on a waiting-list what is she supposed to do? The situation becomes stressful…
Options
To become a stay-at-home mum, but this would only work if the woman is married or living with a partner - a rich one.
To send the baby to be raised by the grandparents - but where is the level of altruism required for the action? Either the grandparents will refuse to do it because they want to enjoy their retirement years or the parents are too busy putting their needs first (especially when the child is the only element glueing the relationship together)...it’s complex.
To hire an au-pair and subject your child to a potential sexual-abuser. Bringing strange elements to a unit is undoubtedly always a risk.
So, when the Soviet Accolite, Samora Machel, after the Independence of Mozambique, screamed “Down with Tribes” he was actually setting himself to divide and conquer the country; but it didn’t quite work in Africa though the continent was torn as punishment for their resistance to Soviet ideas…
The bottom line is: if the Institution of Family, of Tribe, is not restored to its golden era then I’m afraid societies who still abide by such systems will divide and conquer the West.
(Image: Portrait of Ghedini and his Family - Giuseppe Baldrighi)
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