https://recivilizedwoman.com/blogs/news/5-welcome-to-amazonia
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TRIBAL ROOTS
In our tribal roots, all children were children of the community; we know this not only through observation, history, and speculation, but because childhood dependence could not have evolved otherwise.
The extended childhood dependence of humans is one of the most noteworthy features of our species: because depending on a single parent for resources for so many years would be highly unreliable in nature, the capability of taking such a long time to reach viable independence can only have evolved with a robust system of caretakers in place.
When we say a system of caretakers, furthermore, we are referring to something very different from the nuclear family (mother, father, and children) that we are accustomed to now.
In ancient times, women of a tribe all worked together to support one another and care for one another’s children, sharing everything from breastfeeding to caretaking to teaching. Cooperation, not competition, was the norm and the biological (and psychological) imperative.
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