Rose Sybil presents cultural endurance and civilizational renaissance as deeply intertwined with restoring authentic motherhood, illustrating how childbirth and child-rearing are essential experiences of spiritual and social initiation.
Powerful and precise analysis! I had 9 Nordic and Germanic aunts, uncles and cousins close by! How lucky I was and, until now, never knew my fortune! Thanks!
I am quite old (85) and from an entirely, both sides of the family, immigrants. All my grandparents and most of my aunts and uncles were born "in the old country". So I don't know if it was those conditions of uprooted immigrants or those times of 80-90 years ago. But we children were effectively raised by the whole extended family. This was a huge benefit to the parents who in this way were not accountable for the entire lives of all their kids. Grandparents and aunts and uncles could always step in. I suspect this also helped - generally - with relationships between husbands and wives. But any of that took place outside the view of the children. So, you see,, the network was of great help for the entire family, not only the women - though, of course, the focus today (rightly, I think) is on the women.
Powerful and precise analysis! I had 9 Nordic and Germanic aunts, uncles and cousins close by! How lucky I was and, until now, never knew my fortune! Thanks!
I am quite old (85) and from an entirely, both sides of the family, immigrants. All my grandparents and most of my aunts and uncles were born "in the old country". So I don't know if it was those conditions of uprooted immigrants or those times of 80-90 years ago. But we children were effectively raised by the whole extended family. This was a huge benefit to the parents who in this way were not accountable for the entire lives of all their kids. Grandparents and aunts and uncles could always step in. I suspect this also helped - generally - with relationships between husbands and wives. But any of that took place outside the view of the children. So, you see,, the network was of great help for the entire family, not only the women - though, of course, the focus today (rightly, I think) is on the women.