I don't know whether it's to do with the generation I was born in or what, but until I started going to the Philippines in 1989 I had never come across anyone who slept with their child and I found it quite shocking being aware of the dangers of babies being in the same bed as their parents, I now find it more disturbing that it happens in this country. I remember a number of years ago it was recommended on national television not to sleep with small children due to uncertainty of what was the cause of cot deaths!