• kadu@scribe.disroot.org
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    10 hours ago

    Sociologists love making that claim, but it’s not true.

    A long childhood followed by extremely experimental puberty is indeed a biological feature of our species.

    There have been societies that suppressed childhood due to labor needs, but that came after many more had thrived respecting it.

    Modern childhood is indeed new… Compared to western European tradition, not to our species as a whole.

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      Well thanks, but I didn’t finish my doctorate. I’m not really a sociologist. It’s just a hobby.