In your book, you mentioned that in passing to some extent, but it's more than just in passing. We raise children in a way that's in the West that's very different from our evolutionary heritage. You take a baby to Penzi and put it in a cage by itself without its mother and it will go crazy pretty quickly. What I tell people is: Act with your children at home as you would if you were camping in the wilderness. The bigger the group you're with, the safer you are.
Journalist and author Sebastian Junger talks about his book Tribe with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Junger explores the human need to be needed and the challenges facing many individuals in modern society who struggle to connect with others. His studies of communal connection include soldiers in a small combat unit and American Indian society in the nineteenth century.