alloparenting

Diamond also said that alloparenting, where the raising of children involves many parental figures beyond the biological parents, is much more common in traditional cultures than in Western state societies.

UCLA Stories 2009

First of all, we do way more alloparenting than we give credit for, but often, we don't value the alloparents as much as we should: Nannies, day-care providers, teachers—those are all alloparents.

There’s a Better Way to Parent: Less Yelling, Less Praise Joe Pinsker 2022

If you look around the world, you'll see that in many cultures besides Western culture, and definitely in hunter-gatherer communities, there’s an enormous amount of what’s called “alloparenting.”

There’s a Better Way to Parent: Less Yelling, Less Praise Joe Pinsker 2022