Time To Get Under-involved With The Children
Welcome to the neontocracy: a world that revolves around the needs of children far beyond the basics of food and material comfort. Here, it is considered vital to maintain children’s happiness, status, self-esteem and protection, and for parents to do their own childcare and schedule life-enhancing activities for their kids, providing constant stimulation. The neontocracy is increasingly the ideal for the WEIRD world of Western, educated, industrialised, rich and democratic societies. For anthropologist David Lancy of Utah State University (who coined the term neontocracy), this aim is an outlier that bucks the historical and ethnographic record, and in Raising Children, he picks apart the good and bad in WEIRD parenting.
Abandoning harsh practices (sending the kids into the forest in hard times, or enslaving them) is surely good, but progressive virtues carry their own risks. The new ways, says Lancy, can leave many as kidults, ill-prepared to enter acomplicated, adult world.
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