Child Rearing
The communal responsibility for raising children.
Children are raised by the entire community, not just biological parents. Various relatives have specific responsibilities for teaching, discipline, and nurture. This distributed care ensures children learn from many perspectives.
It takes a whole community to raise a child.
Communal child-rearing creates resilient social bonds and diverse learning.
Oral Tradition
Written about in
- What Aboriginal tradition says about kinship and sharing
Children are raised by the whole community, with different relatives holding specific duties for teaching, discipline and care. A child therefore learns from several adults with different styles rather than from two.