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With sedentary living there arose a perception of children as investments … as extra hands and cheap labor: Planetmates reveal childhood lost, the animal self, soul murder, the intrusive mode

Posted on March 14, 2014 by sillymickel

“…What came of such inner forces was that the nuclear family established borders around the land it cultivated and built walls of emotional avoidance between itself and the rest of the community. “It was families against the world. Children were … Continue reading →

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“There was much more happiness attendant upon the state of being a child”: Planetmates reveal magical childhood, tribe life, primitive planned parenthood

Posted on March 9, 2014 by sillymickel

“…there was ambivalence in the desire for children. Your species swayed back and forth about what to do with them — between the poles of infanticide and abandonment, on one side, and acceptance, engagement, and nurture, on the other — … Continue reading →

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