content: That is the same thing most parents on the planet do. The older children help with the younger. My children were capable of taking care of an infant for an hour or so at a time with mild supervision at eight years old. That is how children learn how to take care of their own children when the time comes. The article almost certainly was fully out of context and missing details like the parents being right there wile little Pedro held his little sister after begging mom to do so.