S2E9 - Alloparenting in the Modern Era: Re-envisioning Parenting and Human Community with Dr Darcia Narvaez
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"Throughout life, we need people who are responsive to us, who listen, who think we matter enough to be listened to and who support us. And we also need alloparents. So all these components are not just for mom to do, or mom and dad. It's a community support system.
The community helps with the child raising, whether it's at birth (midwives and doulas), you have people who are there to welcome the baby, who are going to hold the baby, who are going to play with the baby and the children throughout their lives. So it's not just a family affair, it's a community affair."
~ Dr Darcia Narvaez
In this episode, Kaitlin is joined by Dr Darcia Narvaez, professor emerita of psychology and also the host of the EvolvedNest.org and president of kindredworld.org. She's a co-author of the forthcoming book, The Evolved Nest: Nature's Way of Raising Children and Creating Connected Communities, and the film Breaking the Cycle.
Dr Darcia and Kaitlin talk about:
The wonderful spectrum of research and writing Darcia has done throughout her career, why she does it, and how she came to work on the Evolved Nest and all of the other community-building projects associated with it.
The evolved nest's nine (9) practises and how they relate to neuroscience, developmental clinical science, anthropology, and evolution.
How to reconnect with and reclaim the practices and structures that our society has lost in order to return to - or at least get closer to - that evolved nest state.
Darcia's forthcoming book, The Evolved Nest: Nature's Way of Raising Children and Creating Connected Communities, and why she and her co-author structured it in such a way as to speak to our animal nature.
How epigenetics and the influence of our collective cultural traumas overlap, as well as how Dr Darcia's research seeks to address these issues.
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More about Dr Darcia:
Website: darcianarvaez.com
The Evolved Nest website: evolvednest.org
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theevolvednest/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EvolvedNest/
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYFv1BZL-mjBJKz5L485EQg
Related Resources:
The Evolved Nest website: evolvednest.org
Kindred World website: kindredworld.org
Kindred Media website: kindredmedia.org
The Evolved Nest Podcast: https://m.soundcloud.com/evolvednest
The Evolved Nest: Nature's Way of Raising Children and Creating Connected Communities: https://bookshop.org/a/86159/9781623177676
Breaking the Cycle film: http://www.breakingthecyclefilm.org
The Economics of Happiness film, an updated version of Ancient Futures: https://www.localfutures.org/programs/the-economics-of-happiness/
Professor Michael Meaney and his research: https://www.meaney.lab.mcgill.ca/
Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morality: Evolution, Culture, and Wisdom by Dr. Darcia Narvaez: https://bookshop.org/a/86159/9780393706550
James McKenna's Mother-Baby Behavioral Sleep Laboratory" and research: https://cosleeping.nd.edu
More about John Bowlby and attachment theory: https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Bowlby
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