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Cultural Relativity of Toilet Training Readiness: A Perspective From East Africa

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Cultural Relativity of Toilet Training Readiness: A Perspective From East Africa

Marten W. deVries, Marten W. deVries · 1977 · PEDIATRICS

Children
Not given in the summary we read
Where
The Digo people of East Africa
Ages
First year
How
Researchers studied families in one community
What it found
Among the Digo of East Africa, families began toilet training in the first weeks, and babies were dry day and night by about 5 or 6 months.
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We have only read the summary, which doesn't give how many babies or how "dry" was defined.

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