Another plot point in "Hilary was right": The fact that so many of us were NOT raised by a village explains a lot of the sociopathy and dysfunction rampant in the world. I wasn't raised by just my parents; my grandparents, my aunts and uncles, my siblings, my cousins all had a hand in forming who I am. And that has made all the difference in my life. The atomization of families, their relegation to autochthony goes against most of human history.