Peer Pressure Grows Up
Parenting as a relentless quest for perfection
We’re excited to announce our newest Featured Author, Alex Kaschuta.
Alex Kaschuta is a writer who focuses on family and contemporary cultural issues. Her work has appeared in The American Conservative, IM1776, and the New York Post, and she also writes at her Substack, The Garden of Earthly Delights.
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In Alex’s first piece for us as Featured Author, she takes on the latest forms of peer pressure parents face—and how to build a healthier family culture.
Peer Pressure Grows Up
Alex Kaschuta
For my mother’s generation, the pressure was straightforward: have children by a certain age or face social scrutiny. The question was primarily when, not how.
While the age-based timeline pressure has relaxed, it has been replaced by something potentially more daunting: the pressure of parental performance. Where peer pressure once nudged previous generations toward clear-cut milestones, today’s version has mutated into a relentless quest for perfection, reshaping decisions around family, parenting, and identity. Understanding this shift reveals deeper truths about our evolving culture—and why navigating adulthood now feels less like fitting in and more like keeping up.
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