This article provides an intracultural examination of John Whiting’s “household size and infant indulgence” hypothesis. Inspired by Ruth H. Munroe and Robert L. Munroe’s effort to replicate Whiting’s holocultural study with an intracultural study among the Logoli of East Africa, the author uses similar measures of infant indulgence and household density to examine child care data from India. Explanations are offered for the largely negative results for this sample of Indian households. Finally, an important implication of the Whiting hypothesis—the multiple caretaking of infants and young children—is explored.
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