It changes the experience of being human, from what once was a solitude for orphans, and refugees, to a common experience. There's no extended family (and increasingly, no base family either, e.g. no siblings, or divorced or indifferent narcissistic parents) to take refuge to, strengh from, and so on: you're on your own.
Even your friends, if you get to have any, will be a more shallow, and mostly online presence (what with the "loneliness epidemic" and everything), and will increasingly be people who have not learned the art of being with others, unless it's fully on their own terms (think spoiled single children vs children growing up with siblings).
You get to cling and bow to careers, employers, state, trends, peer groups, and so on, as a survival mechanism.
[1] We can spin it as a good thing, by cherry-picking families which did terrible things to their kids as representative of family life at large.
Even your friends, if you get to have any, will be a more shallow, and mostly online presence (what with the "loneliness epidemic" and everything), and will increasingly be people who have not learned the art of being with others, unless it's fully on their own terms (think spoiled single children vs children growing up with siblings).
You get to cling and bow to careers, employers, state, trends, peer groups, and so on, as a survival mechanism.
[1] We can spin it as a good thing, by cherry-picking families which did terrible things to their kids as representative of family life at large.