Watch Backlight Season 23 Episode 6 Online

In Dutch society, mothers bear a disproportionate share of the financial, emotional and practical costs of raising the next generation. How did that come about, and is that actually what makes mothers, children and society happy? A plea for the village from the statement: It takes a village to raise a child. With: writer Aminatta Forna, anthropologist and primatologist Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, science journalist Lucy Jones and historian Noëmi Willemen.