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Astute observation!
My x enrolled in a college course called Early Childhood Development
Right off the bat in the forward, it stated as it's main goal the elimination of patriarchy.
I read the whole textbook and it was nothing less than a battle plan against discipline and the Judaeo Christian family structure .
My wife informed me that we would not be disciplining our child, nor potty training him, that her college educated experts who wrote the textbook were smarter than me and that gave her the right to decide how we would raise our child.
I blame academia for the divorce.
I firmly believe our divorce would have never happened if she hadn't been brainwashed by academia.
She wasn't brainwashed by academia, she just found validation and structure for what she already believed.
Same here. My first wife and I were fine until she was persuaded by a fellow female teacher to take a NEA sponsored self-actualization course to ostensibly become a more focused person. The main theme of the course was, simply put, it was all about her and her becoming all she could be. I/we became an obstacle to that goal. Individual relationships were seen as being limiting to your growth as an individual. Group relationships were fine as long as they were with like-minded people who shared your goals. She slowly drifted away into her pursuit of her quest of becoming God-like. We survived for another 5 empty years before she packed up and left. She was one of three women who took the course at her school who ended up divorced within a few years of taking the course. One even discovered she was really a lesbian after 20+ years of marriage and three kids.
That was almost 40 years ago, and I still miss the girl I fell in love with.