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Kradek posted...

That's cool and all, except that communal/extended family helping raise children has been demonstrated as more beneficial to both the children and the parents.

Within a western culture where the nuclear family is the norm, I can agree, especially in this current day and age where the sense of community has also plummeted in comparison to decades ago. But from the findings of the links @ellis123 brought up, I personally would prefer our current nuclear family based society over a clan based society.

It's also rich that it's the Catholic Church who concocted this as it opens the door for more child abuse when it's only 2 adults in close proximity with the children on a regular basis and so are more easily able to get away with it.

I would deduce that the articles contradict this notion that child abuse would be more prevalent (not saying the other way applies either, I don't know what the statistics are). The articles talk about how people are more trusting of strangers in our current Western society than other clan based societies. If child abuse is more prevalent in nuclear family homes, how is society as a whole more trusting of strangers? If you're raised, not being able to trust your own parents, the people closest to you, to keep you safe, why wouldn't this be extended to strangers? You would be distrusting of everyone else too.