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This article presents a concise evaluation of some aspects of the collective method of child-rearing and education in the kibbutz in Israel. It is noted that the kibbutz system of upbringing has been planned to fulfill the interests, needs, social ideology and goals of life within the commune as an integral part of the larger entity of the State of Israel. The proponents of this system believe that it does not run counter to the development of physically, mentally and emotionally normal children, or interfere with healthy parent-child relationships. In other words, it is believed that despite the striking differences between the ways of upbringing in the kibbutzim and in the more traditional western-type family constellations, child development can be normal in either pattern of living.