No need to apologise ;-))

Perfectly understood: I see family as possibly helpful and valuable, but not mandatory. Personally, I completely broke off contact with my family of origin when I was 16 and I attach great importance to the fact that I have not adopted any of the so-called values from there. Yes, personal experience is a bitter pill that perhaps clouds the overall picture ;-)) I also know families in which things are quite different, namely excellent.

And you're right: a society can only ever be as good as the totality of its individual parts. We are currently experiencing that personal responsibility is being largely discarded and placed in the hands of the social construct ‘state’. What is it supposed to do there? Nobody but ourselves is responsible for our well-being. The state, society, can help out if we end up in a dead end. But the responsibility lies with us! The world isn't just made up of dead ends - but that's how we like to communicate it. I don't yet fully understand in whose best interests this is supposed to be. But if I were to make assumptions, I'm sure someone would call me a conspiracy theorist ;-))