![]() She cites our ignorance of this fact as the underlying cause of all our psychosocial ills. Over time, she became convinced that humans are innately cooperative and hard-wired for happiness. The glaring contrast between the richly connected way of life in tribal villages and the relative alienation of our culture caused her to question some of our most basic assumptions about human nature. She was awed by the purity of their primal origin and moved by their behaviors, especially how they interacted with infants and children. ![]() Liedloff derived her Continuum theory from informal observations while living among native tribes in the Venezuelan rainforest. “If the world could be saved by a book, this just might be the book.” Her work has also influenced evolutionary psychology and the home-schooling movement whose founder, John Holt, said of TCC: First published in 1974, Jean Liedloff’s The Continuum Concept gave birth to the “attachment parenting” movement, which grew out of her ideas. ![]()
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