Think about it. Most species are attentive, loving parents. Birds, skunks, raccoon, wolves, some fishes, elephants... I don’t know why Neanderthals would be any different.
Yeah, it’s not exactly a leap of faith to come to the researchers’ conclusion, and it’s long overdue. Neandertals have been known to have purposefully buried their dead for decades, and known to have cared for older and/or disabled family members. The long line of foolishness about how they couldn’t talk, or were so fugly they were hunted out, or how they weren’t able to walk as fast, or even (my personal favorite) that they didn’t eat any vegetables (I guess they died of constipation), and all those ridiculous calumnies have been shown one after the other to be fabrications. It’s surprising that such bigotry persists.