Fragmented village: How the breakdown of extended families has changed parenting

Forget watching educational YouTube videos or sending kids to classes. The single most important thing parents can do with their children is to play with them. - Image by tirachardz on Freepik.

It takes a village to raise a child, so the proverb goes.

But with urbanisation and migration of young adults from rural areas to cities in search of education and better job prospects, that proverbial village has become fragmented, and most young parents now raise children on their own.