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A Child Raised by Many Mothers: What We Can Learn about Parenthood from an Indigenous Group in Brazil

By Sofia Perpetua — 2019

The Kraho people believe a child should have more than one mother. It’s so ingrained in the culture that the Kraho children use the word “inxe” for both their biological mother and their mother’s sisters or the women their mother considers as sisters, even if they’re not related by blood.

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