Are you part of the village or one of its children?

I’ve seen “it takes a village to raise a child” quoted here several times, but I’m interested to know how you see it. Are you one of the village’s grown-ups, who must help the rest raise its troublesome offspring, or are you a child that the village seems to want to chide, correct, and control into conformity?

If you’re a village parental unit, do you welcome anyone else’s casual (not gummint) help rearing your kid(s)? Or do you resent strangers’ efforts to help?