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Is this generally true of hunter gatherer societies, especially those in temperate or arctic climates?

Most of our ancestors have been living in agricultural villages or pastoral camps for the last 50 or more generations, which is long enough to evolve adaptation to that lifestyle. Admittedly, urbanization is a quite recent and abnormal lifestyle.

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Do we have to go that far back? Multi-generational living was much more common, in cities as well, just a few decades ago and made all this much easier.

That's an interesting observation. Studying "childcare" probably shouldn't focus as much on the difference between "city lifestyle" and "untouched by civilization" like whatever hunter-gatherer remains but between city and, God giveth, the still overly abundant (if not statistically the majority?) rural dwellers.

Where kids still spend most of their time around their parents, help with house chores, attend the garden and the animals etc.

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