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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Better safe than sorry sounds like perfectly common sense. But when you add up all the things you should be better safe than sorry about, you end up with the extreme anxiety our modern society fosters around having kids. It's a wonder anyone has kids at all, when you consider how incredibly fraught and micro-managed we've made the whole affair.
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Absolutely!! I'm a new parent (three weeks now) and this is also my observation. A lot of the new-found 'knowledge' we have generated over the past couple of decades are mostly about minimizing negative outcomes and maximizing good outcomes on the margins. It's at the point where well-intentioned parents are taking in all this information and making checklists as if all of these micro-tips are some sort of recipe for the perfect baby. Now when something happens that's not 100% optimal, parents now have one million things they can beat themselves up about and naval gaze on despite putting in a ridiculous amount of effort to attempt to do everything to give their offspring the best upbringing.