Thank you Mr. Porter for calling out a culture of rabid individualism, a culture that deifies and prioritizes independence over relationship.  Very odd, for a mammalian species that is at its' essence a tribal, relational animal.  The roots of this aberration emerged with the advent of the industrial revolution, B. F. Skinner and his colleague, the father of behaviorism, John B. Watson, who in his 1928 book "Psychological Care of Infant and Child" wrote that mother love is a "dangerous instrument" and should be withheld from the child........sick!  A very noteworthy book, "Love at Goon Park" illuminates the life of the deeply troubled man, Harry Harlow, a psychologist who researched our real roots and the antidote to Watson's perversion.....mother's love!