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Comment author: lmm 13 November 2013 09:56:06PM 0 points [-]

I queried my brain for easy cheap retorts to this and it came back with immediate cache hits on "no we don't, we call them aunties and godparents and positive role models, paranoid modern westerners, it takes a village yada yada yada". All that is probably unfounded bullshit, but it's immediately present in my head as part of the environment and so likely in yours, so I assume you meant something different?

No, those examples really didn't come to mind. Aunties and godparents are expected to do a certain amount of parent-like stuff, true, but I think there are boundaries to that and overmuch interest would definitely seem creepy (likewise with professional childcarers). But yeah, that could easily be very culture-specific.