Doucleff: Most traditional societies utilize four to five alloparents per child
Michaeleen Doucleff · #197 Michaeleen Doucleff: The 4 Biggest Mistakes Parents Make · Jun 25, 2024 · at 11:02
Author Michaeleen Doucleff explains anthropological findings on alloparenting and community childcare to Shane Parrish.
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“And it's funny because I always say, like, it doesn't take a village. It takes, like, five extra people. Like, you know, because if you look in some societies, so they're called alloparents. This is what scientists call them. They're people in children's lives that are just as close to the child and just as important to the child as the mother and the father. They're other parents, basically. And if you look, In most societies, children have, like, four or five of these.”
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