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> And yet there is much precedent for having a village raise children.

But are all those other people on the same 'level' of attachment for the child, or is there a 'hierarchy'?

Further, not that having community is bad, but it can 'devolve' into tribal/clan thinking, which is probably not good for society as a whole (can lead to nepotism, which is generally highly correlated with corruption) and something the West is relatively unique in 'breaking out' of:

* https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/10/joseph-...

* https://archive.ph/e7DJX



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