Making Sense of the Week That Was #42: The Past, Present, and Future of Family
News Wrap Edition #42 of Volume 1 | 5 November 2021
Lead Editors: Sylvia Gallusser and Lindsay Fraser.
The TV series All in the Family debuted in 1971 and remained for 5 years the most-watched show on television. It was groundbreaking for openly talking about serious issues of the day, with storylines evolving around racism, women’s rights, the Vietnam War, homosexuality, and rape, while other shows featured surface-level plots. “Even people who just came in for an episode or two or three remarked about how collaborative the show was,” says writer Jim Colucci who put together the new book All in the Family: The Show that Changed Television, which features interviews with cast and crew members.
50 years later, our notion of family life presents many variations on TV. Many shows make you believe in the power of family from Little House on the Prairie, Gilmore Girls, Roseanne, Full House, Growing Pains, The Cosby Show, Malcolm in the Middle, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Full-House, to Brothers and Sisters, Parenthood, Modern Family, This Is Us, Trying, Breeders, The Simpsons, or Bob’s Burgers… The successful family TV show must achieve a delicate balance between presenting idealized family role models who stick together and mirroring our society’s complex evolutions — more diverse, more open-minded, fragmented, recomposed, with love-hate relationships, and sometimes even plain cruelty.
The family bond is an endless source of binge-watchable plots. In November we welcome new seasons of very dynastic-like family lines with The Great, Succession, and Yellowstone, in a tradition closer to Downtown Abbey, Six Feet Under, The Sopranos, Empire, and Game of Thrones — business inheritance, political intrigues, betrayals, disowning parents, fratricides, and mental break-down. Strong female characters lead these three shows: Catherine the Great plots to kill her depraved and dangerous husband; In Succession, Siobhan “Shiv” Roy wants her part of the Logan Roy’s legacy and doesn’t hesitate to put her marriage at stake; Yellowstone’s Beth Dutton will do what it takes to protect the family ranch.
But family suffering most often takes a more intimate form, with structural toxicity, profound identity crisis, and wounds which take time (seaons) to heal if ever: Shameless, Desperate Housewives, Mad Men, Brotherhood, Bates Motel, Skins, Breaking Bad, Borgen, Homeland, The Servant, Losing Alice, Mare of Eastown and Dexter (which is also due for a comeback this month). No wonder that characters rely on substitute families to thrive — their friends, their workplace, their sports teams, their gang, their life at the hospital, at the post office, or at the law firm.
The demarcation between a blood-related family member and a true soulmate is tenuous, and recent events (the pandemic, social chaos, climate crisis) have even more challenged our notion of family ties. As we have been separated physically from loved ones or forced into prolonged cohabitation in a toxic environment, as we have been summoned to follow our government guidelines or have taken part in protests or collective action, as we have protected our close ones or have lent a hand to strangers, our sense of family and communal effort has been heightened.
As TV series enthusiasts, who better than Ted Lasso’s hero could we quote to close our introduction? “If you care about someone, and you got a little love in your heart, there ain’t nothing you can’t get through together.”
This week we cover The Past, Present, and Future of Family. And a little more.
We’d love to hear your thoughts about “The Past, Present, and Future of Family”. Gather with your loved ones and join us on Clubhouse this Sunday November 7, 2021 at 8 am PST | 11 am EST | 4 pm BST | 5 pm SAST to make sense of it all, have your say, and engage with your favourite Grey Swan Guild Wrap Editors: Sylvia Gallusser, Lindsay Fraser, Sean Moffitt, Rob Tyrie, Doyle Buehler, Agustín Borrazás, Louise Mowbray, Ben Thurman, Antonia Nicols, Esmee Wilcox, Geeta Dhir, Gina Clifford, Su McVey, Howard Fields, Scott Phares.
The Great 😇
- Elon Musk vs. World Hunger.
Elon Musk has become the world’s richest person and is now $100 billion richer than Jeff Bezos and three times richer than Warren Buffet, as his net worth approximates $300 billion. Elon Musk challenged the Director of the UN’s World Food Programme’s claim that just a small percentage of his wealth could help solve world hunger. He wrote in a Twitter post: “If the World Food Programme, using transparent and open accounting, can describe on this Twitter thread exactly how US$6B will solve world hunger, I will sell Tesla stock right now and do it”. The provocation seems like a great way to get brains working all over the planet to build a business plan for Elon Musk’s next company!
2. Lab-grown Burgers
While over half of the planet’s agricultural land is taken up by meat production, lab-grown meat alternatives have been a focus of researchers for decades. When the first lab-grown burger was revealed in 2011 it came with an eye-watering price tag of US$345,000. By 2021 those costs have substantially decreased and chicken is likely to be the first type of lab-grown meat to hit commercial shelves, with the world’s first industrial-scale cultured meat facility recently opening in Israel. The company behind the factory says it can currently produce over 1,000 pounds of lab-grown chicken per day. To create animal-free milk, biotech companies have developed novel ways to produce key milk proteins, such as Perfect Day which uses engineered fungi and Imagindairy bioengineered yeast.
3. Roller Coaster Stomach
In other creative solutions, a man spent $150 a year to eat every meal at Six Flags Magic Mountain in order to save thousands, pay off his student loan debt, get married and purchase a house in Los Angeles. The theme park offers guests a premium season dining pass which allows visitors to enjoy lunch and dinner items. If you time it right, you can eat both lunch and dinner there every day.
4. Diwali Basket Distribution
As Hindus, Sikhs and Jains around the world rejoice in celebrating Diwali this November 4, some struggling families will be able to join the celebration as they will receive Diwali hampers. In Birmingham, Manchester and London, the Diwali Basket Brigade founded in Birmingham in 2018 helps people in need ahead of the festival of light. The families have been nominated by charities and community groups to get the bags of vegetarian food, a Diwali candle, as well as household and hygiene products.
The Good 🤩
- COP26 Family Picture
The 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, known as COP26, is currently being held in Glasgow, Scotland (Oct 31-Nov 12). It is the third meeting of the parties to the Paris Agreement, who are now expected to commit to enhanced ambition since COP21. Originally due to be held in November 2020, the event was postponed for twelve months because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The World Economic Forum draws attention to how to evaluate environmental, social and governance (ESG) policies, how to compare them and even what constitutes a sustainable investment in the first place.
25,000 delegates from 200 countries are attending, among which 120 heads of state, such as: U.S. President Joe Biden, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Prince Charles addressed the opening ceremony in person. In October 2021, the Chinese President Xi Jinping announced he would not be attending the conference. With greenhouse gas emissions by China being the world’s largest, this makes it less likely the conference would result in a significant climate deal. While PM Boris Johnson urges China to peak its emissions in 2025, China warns against trying to force a 1.5 degree goal. Russian President Vladimir Putin said his non-attendance was due to concerns relating to the COVID-19 pandemic. President Biden slammed China and Russia for failing to show up at the summit, accusing the two nations of walking away from their global leadership roles as the world faces unprecedented environmental challenges. French President Emmanuel Macron quit the COP26 climate summit after spending just a single day at the summit over a “fish fight” with U.K’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson — The feud centres on the rights of small-scale fishermen in northern France to continue operating in the waters surrounding the U.K. in the post-Brexit era. The French President missed the family photo.
2. Reforestation Brings Unity
Among decisions taken at COP26, global leaders pledge to end deforestation by 2030. This landmark agreement reflects a growing recognition of nature’s role in helping to address global warming. 100 countries, representing 85% of the world’s forests, have given themselves 9 years to halt and reverse deforestation, including: Brazil, Russia, Canada, Colombia and Indonesia. On the eve of COP26, Marc and Lynne Benioff have announced the donation of $200m for reforestation and environmental restoration efforts, alongside $100m in grants funding by Salesforce for nonprofits over the next 10 years. We notice a rising focus on urban biodiversity that sees communities around the world planting native forests in public spaces, and further uniting people behind the planet’s wellbeing. Microforests popped up in Los Angeles urban parks in October 2021 as part of the L.A. Park Forest Initiative. Bringing nature to urban areas, these mini forests are rewilding cities and providing cooperative places for interaction.
3. Demographics Under Control?
Last May the Chinese Government announced that parents in China would now be permitted to have up to three children. This announcement came only five years after the stunning reversal of the 1980 one-child policy. According to the latest census, China is losing roughly 400,000 people every year; meaning China could lose between 600 and 700 million people from its population by 2100. According to the United States’ most recent census, the U.S. birthrate has declined for six straight years and 19% since 2007 in total. Like China, the US birthrate is now well below replacement rate at 1.6. India also appears on the list of low-fertility countries, with a birthrate at replacement rate of 2.1. (Japan is at 1.3, Russia 1.6, Brazil 1.8, Bangladesh 1.7 and Indonesia at 2.0.) There are still big countries with high birthrates, such as Pakistan (3.4) and Nigeria (5.1). In Belgium, a clinic has been given the go-ahead to reimplant frozen testicular tissue to obtain sperm for fertility treatments. The hope is that the procedure will allow those whose fertility was destroyed by cancer treatments before they reached puberty to have children. The global infertility treatment market size is projected to reach USD 2.2 billion by 2026 (from USD 1.5 billion in 2021), at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 8.1 %. China’s latest census alo shows that the Chinese population is quickly growing older, creating a policy challenge familiar to many governments; how to cover elder care costs while ensuring continued prosperity for everyone else?
4. End Of Stigma
In Kuya, an illustrated piece by AJ Dungo, the artist tells the story of his relationship with his older brother, who struggles with mental illness. He is proud of his brother’s courage, and he sees far beyond any negative labels that society might put on his brother. The New York Times invites students to reflect on their meaningful relationships with family members in a written exercise. Among the parenting trends that define 2021, in number one position comes “More honest conversations about moms in the workforce.”
The Bad 😬
- Family And Poverty
In Ireland, the likely re-imposition of quarter-century-old tax rules that were relaxed when governments ordered people to work from home (because of the pandemic) are threatening to erect a barrier for about 12,500 people living in Ireland (but employed by companies based across the border), by preventing them from working flexibly. According to the OECD Synthesis Report on The Future of Families to 2030, family structure strongly correlates with poverty. The risk of poverty is higher among those cohabiting than among married couples. Divorce and separation are linked to movements into poverty, especially for women. In addition, single-parent families with a working adult generally have higher poverty rates than two-parent households in which only one parent is in employment. Young people living with their parents face a substantially lower poverty risk. As for children in single-parent families, they face an elevated risk of poverty. In most OECD countries the last 20 years have witnessed a shift in poverty risks towards families with children.
2. Families As Microcosms Of Society
Our ideas about what constitutes a “normal” family have changed since the 1960s and will continue to evolve. “Families are simultaneously the vanguard of social change, and often the target of moral outrage”. Anti-miscegenation laws (regulating the interbreeding of people who are considered to be members of different races) were removed from all U.S. states in 1967 and same-sex marriage became legal across the U.S. in 2015. Divorce and recomposed families have become commonplace, and in-vitro fertilization is now widely accepted. Abortion remains a sensitive ground, as the Supreme Court questions the recent controversial Texas abortion law which bans abortions at six weeks (without exception). The lawyer defending the law, Jonathan Mitchell, wrote in his Supreme Court brief that “women can control their reproductive lives without access to abortion by refraining from sexual intercourse.” As such, family structure is directly impacted by the political chaos the U.S. have endured these past years, and notably marked by the appointment of Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett by former President Donald Trump. In other news, the thousands of migrant children who were separated from their families at the border (during former President Donald Trump’s “zero-tolerance” policy before he reversed the practice) may get up to $450,000 in compensation under the Biden Administration.
3. The Working-to-Afford-Child-Care Conundrum
Since 2012, the U.S. homeschooling rate held steady at about 3.3%. In April 2020, the Household Pulse Survey reported 5.4% of households homeschooling. In September 2020, it increased to 11.1% U.S. households homeschooling. According to the OECD brief “Is Childcare affordable?”, the cost of non-parental childcare is high in many OECD countries, such as Japan and the United Kingdom. Support programmes often reduce the costs for low-income families, but out-of-pocket costs often still sum to a large share of earnings for low-paid parents, including single mothers (notably in Ireland, the Slovak Republic, and the U.K.). The widespread closure of childcare facilities during the unfolding COVID-19 crisis only highlights the importance of access to affordable care. As the brief states: “In the absence of special measures to deal with unforeseen childcare needs during lock-down periods, many working parents are struggling to balance their work and family responsibilities. Childcare affordability is likely to remain a key concern as parents gradually return to their workplaces.” In Italy, a study showed that the quarantine experienced during the pandemic undermined both parents’ and children’s well-being. Parents who reported more difficulties in dealing with quarantine show more stress. This, in turn, increases the children’s problems, as distressed parents saw their ability to be supportive caregivers impaired. The UK government’s commitment to flexible working still needs to overcome the huge barriers that remain to adopting the practice. According to a report by the charity Working Families, the Global Institute for Women’s Leadership at King’s College London and the University of East Anglia, all jobs should be designed and advertised as flexible unless there is a strong business case for not doing so. In the U.S., if the Biden administration’s “Build Back Better” plan crosses the finish line, child care might finally be a workable, affordable option for millions: “The overwhelming majority of American parents will pay no more than $5,000 a year for child care, and millions will pay nothing.” This would mark the largest investment in childcare in the U.S. history.
The Ugly 😱
- Selling Children
What happens when families are unable to provide nutrition? As many as 811 million people worldwide go to bed hungry each night, according to the 2020 report from the United Nations food agencies. In Afghanistan, theTaliban blame the U.S. as its population faces death by starvation. According to the United Nations, if humanitarian assistance doesn’t come soon, more than a million Afghan children will die of malnutrition. As international aid dries up and the country’s economy collapses, families are unable to afford basic necessities like food and leads to parents starting to sell their children — such as this father who sold his 12-year-old daughter and is now selling his 9-year-old daughter (who had dreams of becoming a teacher, and didn’t want to give up her education) as a bride to a 55-year-old man in exchange for 200,000 Afghanis (about $2,200) in the form of sheep, land and cash.
2. Family Prison
In Pakistan, the idea of women living alone and independent of their families is still an alien concept. While there is no official data on exactly how many women own properties or rent their own spaces, it is clear that they are very few. Every day the number of crimes against women increases. According to reports from March 2021, cases of violence against women and rape in Pakistan were doubled in the last six months of 2020 (as compared to the first six months of the year 2020). According to Uzma Noorani, the Managing Trustee of Panah, (a shelter for women survivors of violence), “Financial independence is imperative for women; without it there is no moving forward.”
The Grey Zone of Uncertainty 🧐
- Awkward Family Reunions
At the end of 2021, many families around the world are still navigating the chaos to organize themselves for the holidays. Even if we feel safer than we did last year at this time, we’re all still trapped in a global pandemic, and family discussions about COVID-related matters quickly can become awkward. In the U.S., ahead of the holiday season, the Centers for Disease Control is advising people to delay travel until they are fully vaccinated. The Director of the Curry Psychology Group in Orange County, California, explains in Today why it’s natural to feel nervous before telling family members about canceled travel plans, and suggests questions and alternatives to in-person celebration, such as: Are we going to have a Zoom Thanksgiving a day early? Are we going to send each other special packages in the mail? For some people, forced physical separation due to the pandemic has accentuated already broken family relationships. Estrangement within families can be linked to many factors, such as differences in religious or political beliefs, abuse, disagreements about a new family member (step-parent, spouse, in-laws), overbearing grandparents, boundary crossing, lack of apology, or simple loss of connection. Family counseling or family therapy can help repair family relationships by enabling victims to relate to family members and work through the pain of what has happened.
2. Boomerang Kids
In many cultures, moving out of the family home is a rite of passage and the start of adulthood. But many reasons can propel one to move back in with their parents: saving money, getting over a break-up, or caring for aging relatives. The pandemic has been another factor. A study published in Emerging Adulthood shares four strategies young people use to make the transition back into the family home as smooth as possible: develop clear expectations with their parents in order to assert boundaries, consider contributions to the household as an important factor in destigmatising the move back home, make sure that parents know the move is temporary and share a timeline, and engage in “mature, responsible, adult behaviour” such as waking up early, setting and keeping to routines and responsibilities, and functioning independently.
3. Like A Tornado
Unlike everyday stressors, natural disasters like hurricanes bring married couples closer together, at least in the short run (for about a year). Researchers interviewed 231 newlywed couples before and after Hurricane Harvey hit Texas in 2017 and found the biggest boost in relationship satisfaction among the couples who were the most unhappy before the disaster, (regardless of how much the hurricane impacted the couple in damage to their home or other loss). People realize how important their partner is when they are jolted out of the day-to-day stress of life. A U.K. study entitled “Relative Strangers: The Importance of Social Capital for Marriage” found that married couples who met on dating apps have a higher chance of getting a divorce -12% of couples who found their significant other online got divorced within the first three years of marriage compared to only 2% of lovers who met through friends. In China, new procedures destined to slow divorces by making couples wait before the divorce application could be fulfilled, had unintended consequences. The new rule requiring a cooling-off period before a divorce could be granted actually led to an outcry, as well as a surge of applications to beat the deadline.
4. Family By Choice
National studies estimate that while about 7% of U.S. youth are LGBTQ+, 40% of homeless youth identify as LGBTQ+ (meaning that LGBTQ+ young people are much more likely to experience homelessness than non-LGBTQ+ youth). The severe loneliness and isolation experienced when youth are rejected by biological kin contributes to depression, substance abuse, and overall dysfunction. In such cases, chosen families can provide a much-needed support system, financial assistance, and a home. Developing a chosen family is also an important component of longer term self-care. In the developed and developing world, aging adults represent the fastest-growing segment of the population, and by 2030 more than 20% of the US population will be over sixty. Last year, Google announced it would give away 1,000 of its Nest Hub Max voice assistants to retirement communities in Washington state. Amazon shortly followed and announced that it was donating $5 million in smart speakers to health care workers, students, and retirement communities. Will our digital home assistants soon replace family members? If they might help solve the upcoming lack of family caregivers described as the “caregiving cliff”, care bots may very well one day replace human caregivers. Indeed, computers are increasingly guiding decisions about elder care and tracking everything from toilet visits to whether someone has bathed. In other AI companions that might invade our homes, sex bots are controversial. In her latest book 12 Bytes, writer Jeanette Winterson explores the ways that A.I. will change how we think, love and live, and sex bots appear to be the enemy of progress.
BONUS: Future Scenarios of “FAMILY”
Inspired by Gizmodo, here are a few scenarios of what families could look like 50 years from now.
Multiple Family Households: Two or more family groups may decide to live together in a single home, to save money as housing gets more expensive, to engage in polyamorous relationships, or because “it takes a village to raise a child”. The pandemic has underlined how we need to support each other and share duties in extreme situations of lockdown, homeschooling and caregiving.
Multi-generational Families: Radical life extension will have a profound effect on family structure and intra-family dynamics. Vibrant and healthy centenarians will get to know their great-great-grandchildren. Elderly people may choose to have offspring during their later years. Siblings will be multiple decades older or younger.
Gender Fluidity in the Family: We are moving towards a post-gendered society. The role of the family as a means to uphold traditional gender roles starts to dissipate. As gender fluidity becomes more common, families could become mechanisms to support gender exploration and transition, rather than opposing resistance.
Clone Families: Assuming that human cloning is made safe and reliable, this could lead to families in which offspring are the clones of a parental donor, a grandparent, a friend, or even a celebrity. Siblings could be genetic duplicates of each other or of a parent or both, similar to the Orphan Black TV series scenario. Over time, clones could become multi-generational, in so-called “clonal lines”.
Robots and A.I. Caregivers: The movie Her demonstrated the potential for intimate relationships between humans and artificial intelligence. More recently, Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel Clara And The Sun gave life to “artificial friends” in support of sick children. In Japan, grass-eater men (Sōshoku-kei danshi) renounce intimate relationships with other human beings to marry digital dolls or holograms (Read our latest issue #41 — Spooky Sensemaking). Future children will interact with their surrogate A.I. parents or robot nannies using computers, hand-held devices, wearables, implants, brain-computer interfaces, autonomous homes or vehicles. They will be supervised, taught how to read, do math, play games, be entertained, and emotionally supported.
Space Colonist Families: As we will start colonizing the Moon or Mars, we will want to bring our families along, or start new ones. We will see the first generation of humans who have never set foot on Earth. We will develop so-called generation ships, in which the original occupants will likely age and die, leaving their offspring to continue the mission. In such scenarios, human occupants will likely continue to evolve, both biologically, culturally, and as family.
Post-Cryonic Families: Cryonics facilities will make dreams of immortality come true, with reanimated families reunited after death. As the Alcor Life Extension Foundation will likely exercise a Last-In, First-Out policy (LIFO) when choosing who to re-animate, some family members may have to wait a while before all family members are pulled out of cold storage.
Mind-linked Families: Advances in neuroscience will enable family members to connect via mind-to-mind communication. They will be mentally and emotionally connected, capable of communicating, sensing, and using each other’s knowledge, skills, and language. A mind-melded family would be greater than the sum of its parts. A breakthrough by researchers at the Center for Neuroengineering at Duke University shows this future may be closer than we think.
Virtual Families: Mind-uploaded families, or families comprised of emulated brains (called ems) will live as avatars within elaborate simulated environments. Because the constraints of the analog world won’t apply in this metaverse, virtual families may not have the same needs or motivations for staying together as a single, related unit.
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Lexicon — extreme fiction terms tapped by the collect writers of the vampire canon
Family of choice, or “chosen family”, “found family”, “kith and kin”, is common within the LGBT community, sex positive BDSM community, groups of veterans, supportive communities overcoming physical or substance abuse, and friend groups who have little to no contact with their biological parents. It refers to the group of people in an individual’s life that satisfies the typical role of family as a support system. The term differentiates between the “family of origin” (the biological family or that in which people are raised) and those that actively assume that ideal role.
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Some relevant societal events:
Adoption Month: https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/adoption-month/
Orphan Sunday: https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/orphan-sunday/
Human-Animal Relationship Week: https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/human-animal-relationship-awareness-week/
Nov 11 Single Day: https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/singles-day/
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