While I really enjoyed the babies and their development, especially since Mongolia was included. However, I would like to learn more about how the types and locations of families was selected. The choice of an Nambian family was interesting but I don't think representative of an African child's growing up. An inexperienced viewer might draw conclusions about which cultural setting was "better" and more enriching. Perhaps a better selection of families would have been to look at the similarities between child rearing instead of the contrast. And maybe there should have been a much broader selection of families and cultures. There was one very notable error in the sequence about the Mongolian family where the caption often indicated that Japanese was being spoken. I seriously doubt that the case---Mongolian should have been listed. And while we are talking about language, what was the language of the Namibian families. What ethnic/tribal group did they represent and what language/dialect did they speak? So much more could have been included to make this film a more enriching endeavor.
Review of Babies
