Kin: Childhood, Parenting, and the Making of Civilization

Civilization is not inherited. It is raised.

What if the story of civilization has been hiding in plain sight - in the children each generation raises?

History is often told through kings, wars, inventions, empires, and revolutions. But beneath every civilization lies a quieter force: the way societies bring children into the world, protect them, discipline them, educate them, idealize them, depend on them, and prepare them for the future.

In KIN: Childhood, Parenting, and the Making of Civili...