Alloparenting

here.

Alloparenting is care from anyone other than the mother.

Fathers, grandmothers, siblings, unrelated campmates, adolescents, older children.

And the claim from the Cambridge group, Chowdhury and Swanepoel, is that this isn't a convenience or a fallback.

She's relieved.

She's relieved of the peace that was never supposed to be hers alone.

And the Alloparenting paper's framing is that the intensive mothering narrative, one adult meeting every need, can lead to maternal exhaustion and has dangerous consequences.

That's Chowdhury and Swanepoel.