Kin: Childhood, Parenting, and the Making of Civilization

What if one of the most powerful forces in human history has been hiding in plain sight?

We tell the story of civilization through wars, rulers, inventions, religions, and institutions. But beneath all of them lies another force: the way each generation raises the next.

KIN: Childhood, Parenting, and the Making of Civilization follows childhood across the long arc of human history-from the first communities that shared the burden of raising helpless infants to agricultural households, empires...