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> If a child is getting input from that many different adults it becomes an averaging of the culture norms.

More directly, it greatly softens the inevitable blows from highly-concentrated, inexperienced parenting.

I would also add that by the time of becoming a parent every girl was already familiar with most of the chores and tasks of raising a child and most likely familiar with giving birth because no one went away to hospital to give birth - it happened at home.

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