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[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]

There's a big difference between having all the members of one tribe/extended family take care of the babies, and outsourcing that care to people who are not part of the extended family.[/quote]

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