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How to create community for your children in individualistic environments

I grew up in a big extended family but we live in the suburbs now and my kids are lonely and I don't know how to give them the community that shaped me.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A parent struggles to replicate the collective child-rearing experience that formed them within an isolated nuclear family structure.

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