The cultural obsession with raising independent, non-needy children is a distinctly Western artifact of a society lacking communal child-rearing structures. Sleep training is downstream of that value system—the assumption that dependence is weakness to be eliminated as early as possible. Cultures that raise children collectively produce different attachment norms, and forcing independence onto a six-month-old is a solution to a problem the West itself created.
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