Hanai

Hanai Hanai - To raise, rear, feed, nourish, sustain; provider, caretaker or, on a historical, practical context, “given away by birth parents to be raised by another couple.” In ancient Hawaiʻi, and even today, the concept and practice of “hanai takes place openly among family and close friends; a child is considered the greatest of gifts.”

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