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Re:Grandparents raising children is in line with human biology by oh_sigh on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @01:16AM (#11759126)
Or it's as simple as the fact that modern society treats people as children well into their 20s. Would I take a 15 year old american high school girl/boy as a mother/father? No.

Would I take a 15 year old girl in a tribal village as mother? Sure, why not?

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Re:Grandparents raising children is in line with human biology by raldi on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @02:22AM (#11759334)
What you're not considering is that the tribal mother is almost certainly not raising the child in a nuclear family.
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Re:Grandparents raising children is in line with human biology by cylinder on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @11:54AM (#11770667)
The "nuclear family" is a modern construct. That's the point.

What's more strange, having grandparents raise children or importing young women from across the planet and paying them to do it while the parents sit inside offices all day shuffling paper around...

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Re:Grandparents raising children is in line with human biology by SolarNet on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @02:27AM (#11759346)
Probably has a few grandparents around...
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