Scrolling through the all feed and saw this post and genuinely cannot tell of this is satire or not.
this post was submitted on 26 Mar 2026
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Is “abolishing the nuclear family” actually in the program here? WTF
Certainly not in the sense that "we take away your children and raise them separated from you" but more in the sense of "it takes a village to raise a child". This can mean anything from extended family to patchwork to an active and engaged neighborhood to queer constellations of open relationship or poly or what ever. There is a quote from Thatcher "There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families."
Nuclear families, more than other forms of family and relating to each other, are isolating and making the people dependent on each other, most often making women financially dependent on men and men emotionally dependent on women. Abolishing the nuclear family doesn't mean that you can't live in a healthy monogamous relationship with a good connection to your kids. It means that you don't have to but can leave a toxic relationship and that your kids have other caregivers to complain about you and, if need, can leave. Or to live in other ways together that don't fit the model at all. To get back to Thatcher, it's not about taking away the little connection the individuals have but about strengthening the society, she denied exists.
I hope that helped. Sometimes I'm too much in my bubble to realize that implications aren't obvious. I specified "nuclear family" but I see that that's not enough. Thanks for pointing it out. Family Abolition is an interesting topic you can look deeper into if that interests you.
I really think that the word "abolish" is causing problems of understanding here. For most people, "abolish" conjures up the word "abolition," as in the abolition of slavery. That was not a movement that made slavery optional for those who wanted it but kept it in place for those who still wanted to maintain the practice; it was emphatically a movement to make the very concept of slavery illegal (we could have a conversation about how successful it was in the context of the private prison complex, but that's a whole other can of fish).
When we talk about abolishing something, we generally aren't saying we're going to reduce it as an obligation or pay less attention to it; we mean we're going to do everything in our power to make it not exist anymore. If people assume you mean the latter when you actually mean the former, it's going to cause confusion and derail the entire conversation into a cul de sac of definition, rather than addressing the actual topic we want to address.