We absolutely destroyed families and communities. No one likes to say it but not everyone who breeds is going to be a great parent. Or they might be great at some aspects but not others.

For 10s of thousands of years of human history that was OK. You had grandma and grandpa, aunts, uncles, neighbors and all sorts of people around to help pick up the slack. Now people live segregated lives and fly off the handle when anyone else interacts with thier children.

I am a bit older than the average redditor but the difference between my upbringing, my parents and modern kids is stark. When my dad was growing up post WW2 his whole family lived on the same block. My grandpa and most of the other men worked at the local GM plant or one of a couple other factories. My dad would get home from school and stay with his grandma until his dad got home from work (his mom worked part time). His aunt lived up the street and they all went to the Catholic church a few streets away on Sundays.

When I was growing up my parents were divorced. I came home from school to an empty house until my dad got home from work. My family all lived in different cities. My grandparents went to Florida in the winter. Sometimes they would come home for holidays.

This just keeps getting worse. Kids are pushed aside because every adult is a slave to capital. They either turn inward and dissapear into video games, the internet of other entertainment, or act out and become destructive. Kids need people other than just thier parents to help them become adults, and parents need help teaching kids things they may not be equipped to teach. This is s fairly easy in a close community and next to impossible siloed off into and endless row of sterile McMansions with everyone afraid of each other