Yes - I guess what we do as parents is prepare our children for the society they are going to enter and how to best do that depends on what that society is. Alt

Yes - I guess what we do as parents is prepare our children for the society they are going to enter and how to best do that depends on what that society is. Although I suspect other environments have different types of stresses, but perhaps less chronic ones. Many tribal societies have some sort of right of passage for males at adolescence which involves stress of some sort.