How Modern Parenting Got It All Wrong - Dr Paul Turke - #938

How might child rearing look different if parents were educated in evolutionary theory? Well, I think quite a few ways. Probably the biggest one in one of the big themes in my book is that we used to live embedded in kinship networks. Um, so we had lots of different uh helpers, contributors uh helping us to raise our children. The you know, there are situations now where one parent, usually a mother, gets stuck with three kids in a in a home and um uh it's very different from how things used to work.

uh back in the day and it puts a lot of stress on everybody, uh children, but parents, parents also. Uh, so so that's a big thing. Um kids when they would go out to play and run around, they would uh be in sort of mixed age groups, so they would have Uh if you were a three-year-old, you'd have a seven-year-old there uh to to learn from and you might be helping a two-year-old. And uh so the the sort of the independent child stuff would be different.

Uh so those are two of the big ways that uh uh we've uh lived in we live now sort of in a mismatched environment. What about what does that say about broken homes or unintact homes, increasing single parents, stepparent. Um what are the implications of that when it comes to child development? Yeah, I think it puts uh a lot of stress on on children.

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