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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Haven't read all 16 pages, in fact I've only read the OP.  But I'm an anthropologist, and I wanted to point out that having other women raise your children is actually as normal as human behavior gets.  One of the reasons the human species survived was because of their ability to cooperate and share, and start living in larger social units (villages).

In order to sustain the larger groups, people had to all participate in the work required to sustain the village.  This usually meant the men would go out and hunt, and able bodied women would go out and gather.  Women who were either too old, too sick, or otherwise unable to contribute this way would stay back in the village and watch the children and do other chores (cleaning, cooking).

When you think about it, daycare in our society is just another form of what humans have been doing for many thousands of years.

It is actually a lot more abnormal to have one woman stay at home with her child - much more isolating.  [/quote]

That's an interesting perspective, and it makes sense.  It makes a lot of sense, especially, for children - but wouldn't infants have been cared for primarily by their birth mothers, up to a certain age perhaps?[/quote]

New poster here, not an anthropologist, but I did have a chance to live in other parts of the world in the Peace Corps.  THe answer is yes and no.  In many villages there are wet nurses. Nursing a baby is not only done by the mother.  In the developing world women work very hard and it is a false presumption that Western women are the only ones separated from their babies during the day. Western women actually have it quite easy and often spend much more time with their babies than the developing world where the fields are full of women laboring in the hot sun from dusk till dawn.[/quote]

Wet nurses are for the rich!

Women in the field are not those with infants at home. They work hard once their kids are old enough to join them in the field around 5 years of age. Until them they're around the village watching their own kids and helping others with young children too.

Been there, done that. Literally![/quote]

You have no clue.[/quote]

And you do? LOL[/quote]

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