Cross-Cultural Child Rearing There are many ways to raise children in today’s society. Sometimes, we in our own societies believe that the way that we raise our children is the correct way to parent a child. We tend to not realize the variety of cultures and respect the way that these different cultures raise their children. There are different approaches to childbirth, infancy and also the relationship between the parents and their children. Throughout time mothers have given birth to their children, nursed them and taught them from early childhood the things that they will need to know for their life. Mothers in all types of cultures nurse their newly born infants and tre