The Ancient Ugandan Motherhood System That's Way Better Than The Nuclear Family

The Family Teams Podcast

Jeff Bethke

Kids & Family, Religion, Fatherhood, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Parenting

4.8 • 707 Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

How do you care for a new mother? How do you care for a family?

If you're a citizen of the West, the answer is basically: you don't.

There's no recognition, value, or care for family anymore.

Yet there is an ancient way that most of humanity for most of time has followed that helps mothers and families thrive as multi-generational teams.

That way is still kept in places like Uganda, which Jeremy and April discuss today.

Can you even imagine this kind of support?

And if you didn't receive this support, don't worry...you get to be the one to choose to build this type of family downstream, and the work starts today as you build relationship with your children.

Stand at the crossroads and choose the ancient path.

On this episode, we talk about:

0:00 Intro

2:14 Stark Differences Between How Mothers Are Treated in The West vs. Africa

14:14 Ancient vs. Western Ways

21:02 The nuclear family is not the ideal

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Guardian Article: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/feb/05/mother-west-uganda-parenting-uganda-society-switzerland

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0:00.0	We are surrounded by all kinds of messages that say, put yourself first.
0:05.0	And all those messages fly in the face of this kind of celebration of motherhood, the kind of support
0:11.0	that we need to be giving to mothers as they're having children early and often.
0:15.0	Don't lose hope for family.
0:16.0	Don't lose hope for motherhood or fatherhood or childhood.
0:19.0	Lose hope for these modern Western experiments that are not working.
0:22.9	Like God designed the world really well.
0:25.5	Sin has done a number on us, but so has really bad ideas about family.
0:30.5	So we need to get back to this ancient path.
0:31.9	Hi, welcome to the Family Teams podcast.
0:36.2	Our goal here is to help your family become a multi-generational team on mission by providing
0:41.5	you with biblically rooted concepts, tools, and rhythms.
0:45.1	Your hosts are Jeremy Pryor and Jefferson Bethke, and we can't wait to chat about all
0:49.4	things family.
0:50.4	Hey everybody, welcome back to the podcast.
0:52.6	I'm here with my lovely wife, April. April, what's today look like for you? Anything fun and exciting? Well, I got to spend the morning with our lovely daughter, who is getting ready to head off to a Navigator's ministry for two months in Florida. And so I got to hang with her spend some time shopping for
1:13.9	some last minute things and you know just talking about life and catching up so we're really
1:21.2	excited about this opportunity for her but she's also really going to miss home so it's one of
1:26.0	those things where you're excited, but a little bit, you know, pre-homesick.
1:34.9	I know.
1:36.1	Yeah.
1:36.8	She's our most, I think, attached child.
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