Pussification... dependency literally from the cradle to the grave!
Individual is dead.
It takes a village.
Society is about domestication.
Culture is king.
Emotional intelligence.
Social intelligence.
Possibly, but this seems to go against the left’s doctrine of “abolition of the family” somewhat. And I have to compare this to Luke 11:7 too.
What the Flippin' Heck?
We're talking about infants here.
Parental physical closeness (specifically, maternal, and most especially at nighttime) is a matter of life or death for little babies.
People have known this and lived by it, forever. It's only recently --- 10 minutes ago on the historic scale --- that mothers began unnaturally distancing themselves, emotionally and physically, from their little babies --- with uniformly bad results.
Which is what was wanted, I think.
"It's splendid, dedicated mothering --- attachment mothering --- in other words, normal mothering --- which results in infants' needs being met fully at the appropriate developmental stage; which results in the normal confident individuation of the pre-pubescent child; which results in the development of non-needy non-clingy independent older children and adolescents; which results in adults who are fully adult."
Nothing pussified about that. It’s common sense and good medical sense. Do you think in all of human history infants under 1 year old were banished to a separate cave or hut?
“Pussification... dependency literally from the cradle to the grave!”
I take it from this comment that you are opposed to the recommendation? I ignore the AAP for many reasons, but this particular piece of advice is OK, even if for the wrong reasons.
Children should be closely bonded with their parents. This is a Christian concept, and it reduces the likelihood that children will instead be bonded with the State, or with the trash they see in movies/TV, or with undesirable peer groups & activities. We are all dependent in one way or another from cradle to grave! Family dependency just happens to be the Godly way.
The opposite concept, to immediately push children into independence and autonomy (a socialist concept, I might add), is a key reason why the Republic, as we know it, has been circling the drain for a couple generations.
Even when they had a separate room for mom and dad the youngest stayed in mom and dad's room until they were two or three.