106c. "It takes a village"
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The Great Transition Sometimes
The role of the father is most subject to creative script variation, says Hardy. When you have countries getting richer and women getting more educated, they tend to have fewer children. In Manning-Kabau villages in Western Sumatra, the Patar Familius adds sections to the communal home like a vertical layer cake for his married daughters and their offspring. Similarly, among the Njars of southern India, husbands and wives live apart except for visits, where fathers have little to do with their children.
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