Oh I’ve heard about CPS getting involved especially with working-class families of color. One of my coworkers this summer is an Indian-Bangladeshi American woman and she grew up in the Bronx with her dad (her parents are divorced) and there was only one bedroom in their apartment and CPS literally came because they thought it was “neglect” even though her dad slept on the couch and let her sleep in the room like…… people are fucking disgusting and awful and this is 100% due to class violence and racism
also i learned about the practice of co-sleeping and how it differs from country to country in my developmental psychology class and again… i was literally shocked to learn that my experience of co-sleeping with my mom was not something practiced in the US. it’s legit common in most countries though lol
I was in my cultural anthro class and the professor said how co-sleeping helped children develop their sense of self faster because they were in close quarters with someone that Was Not Them for so long and then of course when I went to my Adolescent Psych class, my (white) prof said that wasn’t true lmao and how co-sleeping hindered a child’s independence and my gf and I had the LONGEST fucking look at each other
oh the “hindering independence” thing is another big reason why american parents dislike co-sleeping… imagine how fucked up individualism is, that it conditions people to think a parent sleeping with their infant is “fostering dependency”
my family in bangladesh are so surprised that I sleep alone in my bedroom since it’s practice to sleep with other people in the same bed. my 9yo cousin still hates sleeping alone and says it scares him.
there was a really publicized case in 2012 when norwegian CPS took away an indian couple’s kids for “feeding them with their hands and sleeping in the same bed” and the indian government had to intervene
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