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For some definitions of attention, yes, but not necessarily historically massive amounts of physical contact and (non -neurotic) care.

Think of the images from the world over of indigenous women going about their days largely with their young children strapped to them.

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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.

> Think of the images from the world over of indigenous women going about their days largely with their young children strapped to them.

Until they can walk at which point they are increasingly gone to do the vital growing that happens away from adults.

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).

> Think of the images from the world over of indigenous women going about their days largely with their young children strapped to them.

Note how the extent you went is imagery rather than hard numbers, you don't have a leg to stand on.

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