Given that we actually give kids massive amount of attention compared to historical standards ... calling current situation "degenerate" is absurd. Also considering that by many statistics, children do better then they used to just a few decades ago.
They have another child in 18 months. This one is then unstrapped and you don't see it on the pic. Nor you see even older siblings. And those women work with infant strapped cause they have to, they can't stop working once the kid is toddler.
And by the time they are 5 they play alone unsupervised. Which was even the same in villages in Europe even after WWII. My grandma was herding goats with pack of kids at 5 and remember it as normal. School started at 6.
This is not advocacy for replicating indigenous societies parental habits, but perhaps a key is hyper-focused for 2-3 years and then a steeper dropoff on the hand-holding (literally and figuratively).
Significantly better than some historical standards and significantly worse than others. We aren't doing the best that has ever been done across all cultures and history in this regard, not by far.
> Given that we actually give kids massive amount of attention compared to historical standards ...
This is literally based on a comparison with hunger-gatherer societies.
To the extent that there is any accuracy to your "compared to historical standards", its probably based on a low point reached (in the "developed" world) somewhere between the first industrial revolution and mid-20th century,
Primitive hunter-gatherer societies might have raised their children in a communal way, with relatives and friends living nearby, always interrupting and nagging us.
We, the supreme civilisation, at the summit of evolution, are locked in in individual cages, disconnected from each other, so we can spend more quality time attached to our screens.
> Given that we actually give kids massive amount of attention compared to historical standards ... calling current situation "degenerate" is absurd.
This seems to assume that ~all attention is positive and that attention is still beneficial after the Xth hour. After a time the adult role becomes less parent and more like prison guard duty.
It also seems to assume adult-time is enough for kids and that peer-only time isn't an irreplaceable environment for kids to develop their core social skills.
