The way that children are raised differs in many ways from one society to another. Parental responsiveness to infants, parent-child play, and parental acceptance are a few of the ways that child-rearing can differ in each culture. In the United States and other western countries, infants spend a lot of time on their own in a crib, playpen, or stroller. Dao babies from Yunnan Province in China spend much time in physical contact with their mother or another caretaker. This difference in the degree to which caretakers hold infants during the day may be because parents in the United States do not want their babies to be dependent and clingy. (page 61) Another variation in childrearing is parent-child play. In western societies, typically “good”
