> Contemporary society puts much more effort and individual attention toward raising individual kids then majority of past societies used to. The "kids raise ea

> Contemporary society puts much more effort and individual attention toward raising individual kids then majority of past societies used to. The "kids raise each other" complain is very modern, precisely because we expect more from childraising. Not really. If you go back a century or two, that might be true. Parents went off to the office, and the kids were left to their own devices. Often, herded together with tens/hundreds of other kids, with less adult supervision than today. But if you go back many thousands of years to tribal societies, it's the opposite. Caveman kids spent most of their life around adults, and a handful of other kids. It's the equivalent of going to the neighborhood bbq, where there's a wide variety of adults and youths hanging out. Packing hundreds of kids into a confined place with 1 adult for every 30 kids... that is a very modern phenomenon.