I wouldn't even know where to start. It's a simple fact of our society. Maybe, but we cannot just turn around and change it on the spot. She doesn't want to go any more. Let's look at the Native Americans a few hundred years back.
Children live and think in the present.
To answer Woty's question - my child belongs only to herself. Out of the egg and on their own. My last point. Early Childhood Education at the University of Illinois.