Child abuse?

This is a basic nature/nurture question. When we are young and exposed to something, there is a possiblity that the child will grow up favoring that something. As our society continues to change from a community to more of an individualistic society, people are left to deal with things for themselves. Heres a scenario: Men and Women live together with their children (not man and women notice the plural), 2000 years ago. Men, Women and Children all lived together and did everything together. Probably the only time that these people secluded themselves from one another was when they went to sleep, and that probably. 2000 years later, your lucky to find a neighborhood where people know each other intimately, like how friends know each other. Because of this adults are left to deal with their own problems rather than as a community. For example, woman gets water, man hunts for food, who watches the kids? The person who is sitting next to you who is helping the community in other ways. So, why is it we abuse children? Adults get frustrated, and with the protection of the walls of your home your more likely to do something taboo within those walls, rather than out. Break down these walls and lets live the way they did 2000 years ago. Hey if they survived, who, or what says that we cant