Lisa Reagan talks with Darcia Narvaez about the new Evolved Nest Baby Bill of Rights poster, available here. In 1989, world leaders made a historic commitment to the world’s children by adopting the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child – an international agreement on childhood.  It’s become the most widely ratified human rights treaty in history.  However, as Darcia explains in this interview, children's basic needs are not the basic needs of babies. A Baby's Bill of Rights are really the baby's basic needs for brain, immune system, and even spiritual development (nature connection). If these basic needs aren't meet when a baby's biology expects them to be met, we are looking at a lifetime of compensating for these deficiencies as adults.

The Baby's Bill of Rights was first presented in the academic book, Basic Needs, Wellbeing, and Morality: Fulfilling Human Potential, by Darcia Narvaez in 2018. The 14 rights of babies presented on the poster are directly from the nine components of our Evolved Nest – a few components were broken down into smaller parts. You can listen to Darcia discuss each of these baby's rights in the podcast interview.

In this interview, you will learn:

1. Why a Baby's Bill of Rights is needed.
2. Why is the Baby's Bill of Rights speaking to communities and not parents?
3. How is a baby's developmental needs different from a child's needs?
4. How does a Baby's Bill of Rights contribute to the creation of a Wisdom-based, Wellness-informed Society?

Why Do Baby's Need A Bill of Rights? (New poster discussed)

Can We Create A Village In A Competitive Culture? Reimagining And Rebuilding With The Evolved Nest And Partnerism
A Powerful Conversation with Riane Eisler and Darcia Narvaez

Learn more on Kindred: https://kindredmedia.org/2025/05/can-we-create-a-village-in-a-competitive-culture/

In this powerful conversation, Riane Eisler and Darcia Narvaez explore the synergy between Eisler’s Partnerism framework and Narvaez’s Evolved Nest model. Narvaez’s and Eisler’s lifelong scholarly works intersect in their call for a shift towards nurturing, relational, and balanced models of existence that revalue the feminine and kinship bonds, seeing these as essential for creating a sustainable, compassionate future. Their work advocates for a profound cultural transformation, grounded in the rediscovery of ancient values and practices that honor interconnectedness and the sacredness of all life.

In defining the complimentary relationship between the Evolved Nest and Partnerism, Riane points out in the video below that alloparenting, one of nine key components of our Evolved Nest, isn’t possible without economic shifts toward gender parity and valuing caregiving. Her insight provides critical guidance for cultural creatives and Nesting Ambassadors who may risk burnout in an effort to create a modern village based on a Cycle of Cooperative Companionship in a decaying culture based on a Cycle of Competitive Detachment. While Narvaez’s work restores our baselines for typical species wellbeing, Eisler’s work expands  practical guidance/insights that protect activists from entering into draining Hamster Wheel Activism (acting unconsciously from the Dominant Worldview to engender social change).

Riane Eisler and Darcia Narvaez: Can We Create A Village In A Competitive Culture?

The Evolved Nest is a breakthrough concept that integrates findings across fields that bear on child development, child raising and adult behavior.  The Evolved Nest promotes optimal health and wellbeing, cooperation, and receptive and sociomoral intelligences. Societal moves away from providing the Evolved Nest have contributed to the ill being and dysregulation we see in one another and society. Learn how to nest your children and re-nest yourself.

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