There are many people out there doing the very same thing. Historically, people of many cultures have slept with their children. It dates back to our ancestry. It's interesting to note that our society is highly neurotic and drug addicted. Now couple these stringent practices with the lack of quality time.
More families are single-parent and dual career than ever before.
Many of our children are in daycare longer than the forty plus hours that their parents work. Parents are spending less time with their children. Babies can be fed and burped and diapered, but if they are not held, they will die. Children need their parent's physical presence and they need to be touched by them. I knew the popular American parenting culture, but my own experience led me down a different path.