Hinesh Chauhan says we've lost the communal village that once raised kids, replaced by schools and screens. The cost: more stress, higher divorce rates, and worse health. Rebuilding community connection is the fix.
Does it take a village to raise a kid? I think so. I really do. There's a reason why we have these sayings. We don't have these villages anymore, especially after Covid, Covid's increased our segregation, separation. We don't have that connection, collaboration and community that really we need as families to support all that happens in our lives. And this is the way I see it. I see kids being outsourced until they're school aged. I see kids going to school, coming home and being babysapped by screens. I see both parents fighting to exist in this rat race existence. I see grandparents being tossed to no longer contribute into assisted living facilities or retirement residences. And you don't have that transfer of values to the younger generations, the support and parenting from grandparents, helping the parents. We don't have the engagement in houses of worship where you have other people, other elders overlooking you or people to go to that can be a neutral third party to provide advice. Which makes me wonder, does all of this, has all of this led to a first time 50% rate of divorce? There is a complete lack of connection of collaboration and community. It's not supported. Is there a drive, as I said in a previous video, follow the money to buy the housing industry to increase demand for housing with split households. We've got a really, really massive problem in our society right now where that lack of connection is increasing mental stress is decreasing wellness, which leads to mental illness, which leads to physical illness. It comes down to connection. The simplest solution for everything is increased connection. That's fact, that's the truth. We need more of it.
