“This approach creates fewer strains between family members, because those individuals don’t have to make the sort of extreme sacrifices that can cause them to lose their independence, which so often forces families in America to fall apart—or stops them from forming in the first place.”

— Anu Partanen

Source: The Nordic Theory of Everything, Chapter 3

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