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That is not it at all. No one is that poor and no one would even consider that an issue for a second.
It's about the child being an imposition (on that particular day), and depriving the other family of their family time and fucking up their planning.
It's almost the other way around. The more affluent the family is the the more precise their planning will be and the parents time more precious, and they likely have their children's time planned out as well.
That can’t be it, I doubt Scandinavians are more likely to be helicopter parents than Americans of the same class. The family time explanation, I don’t know, you’re not really “losing” family time if your family eats together with your kid’s best friend, not in any practical sense.
It's not the family that offers dinner that's deprived of family time, it's the other family whose kid isn't home for dinner that's losing their family time.
Sorry for being unclear.
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I still think your society is uncomfortable with gifts because it implies an unequal relationship and disturbs the law of jante, which also explains the going dutch and the rest of your peculiarities. And it’s just more fun to believe that, rather than your culture being particularly anal about eating times and potatoes.
People are for sure uncomfortable with gifts but a weekday home dinner is too small to be considered a gift, even if it repeats.
Don't underestimate how anal and uptight at least Swedes can be.
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