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5. I believe that sociologists have studied this and found that...
Thu Jun 27, 2013, 08:07 PM
Jun 2013

Human's raise children as communities. I could be wrong but I believe I've read this somewhere. We are just about the most social creatures on the planet and have turned over some / many of our child rearing activities to the community at large. For example part of the reason that most mammals have to be HYPER attentive about their children is that it's literally a dog eat dog world for them. Their relatives and those in their community often will do nothing to help them. You DO see exceptions to this rule, for example animals that form prides / groups and raise children together. Humans however take it to the next level. So part of the reason we don't raise children the way many wild animals do is that many of the tasks that would have to be done by the parent in the wild are taken over by others in our society.

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