As you probably know, it was not typical for parents to raise children in isolation until perhaps the middle of the twentieth century, and then only in certain industrialized societies. Before that, children were raised by more than one person—a married couple working together, an extended family, women doing communal tasks with all their children near them, older children taking care of younger ones, or parents in a small community simply keeping an eye on each other’s children when the kids were out playing rather than each parent hovering over their own child. By leaving our old ways, we
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Yes but society is no longer set up in this way. It is not as simple as hiring someone to help.
