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Reply to "The "village". Why communal child rearing doesn't translate easily to American culture. "
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[quote=Anonymous] When my Sri Lankan immigrant parents got married and were thinking of having children they purposely created a village with two of my aunt and uncle’s and their respective families. I was the third born in that set up after two cousins under a year older than me. Our dads worked full time while the mothers all got part time jobs which they were able to co ordinate so one of them was always at home for group baby sitting. I loved it, I regarded my cousins as siblings since we were always together. However there was very clear boundaries around who where the actual parents, my aunt used to use corporal punishment with a wooden spoon on her son but she never touched me, my parents forbade it. There are ways to integrate American values into the village. Carpooling, backyard barbecues and neighbourhood watches are very middle class suburbia staples etc [/quote]
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