[asveikau]

I don't know if or easy or hard for them, because if the culture is set up that way to begin with maybe it's adapted for that in ways a western mind would not anticipate.

I do, however, think it sounds like a huge bummer, speaking as a father who is very involved in raising my kids and would not like to be shut out of the role.

[elros]

Well I guess you'd still be very involved in raising your kids, it's simply that culturally in that society what you'd consider "your kids" would be your sister's kids.

Possibly if you would want in that society to raise the children you fathered it'd be akin to you in our society wanting to raise your sister's children.

[mjfl]

Farming sucks, even moreso when a single parent. It doesn't matter whether your mind is "western" or not.

[asveikau]

But the article says they live in a multi generational household with the mother's blood relatives. Doesn't sound like single parenting to me, itself a term with a very loaded meaning in our culture.