In distant times gone by...
When you had to go somewhere or do something, you threw the child up in the air, and three grandparents and a half dozen aunts would catch it before it hit the ground.
The modern world gives people a lot more opportunity than they had back then. Because of that, I'm not a farmer, thank God, and I wouldn't go back. But we've lost a few things, too.
When politicians say "it takes a village to raise a child," they mean "Society," and the Great Father in Washington. But "a village" used to be almost everyone you were related to, and people you knew as well as the relatives.