Raising Children

An intriguing, sometimes shocking, journey across the world to show how children are raised in different cultures.

David F. Lancy is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at Utah State University. He is author/editor of several books on childhood and culture, including Cross-Cultural Studies in Cognition and Mathematics (1983), Studying Children and Schools (2001), Playing on the Mother Ground: Cultural Routines for Children's Learning (1996), The Anthropology of Learning in Childhood (2011) and The Anthropology of Childhood: Cherubs, Chattel, Changelings (Cambridge, 2015).

1. Introduction: leave the kids alone; 2. Culture and infancy; 3. Questions about infant attachment; 4. Children playing and learning; 5. Protection vs suppression; 6. Going to school; 7. The consequences of raising 'unique individuals'; 8. Summary and speculation; 9. The back story; Selected sources.