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Parenting Rewires the Male Brain
sciencehabit writes: "Cultures around the world have long assumed that women are hardwired to be mothers. But a new study (abstract) suggests that caring for children awakens a parenting network in the brain—even turning on some of the same circuits in men as it does in women. The research implies that the neural underpinnings of the so-called maternal instinct aren't unique to women, or activated solely by hormones, but can be developed by anyone who chooses to be a parent."
This must be the process that makes it possible to see humor in dadjokes. Warrants funding research in that field.
As a parent, I discriminate against the childless as I'm so jealous.
Oh, to not have three screaming children.
That's just because he couldn't get less funny.
Required reading for internet skeptics
So, you think it will take dumping her on an island thousands of miles away for her to not be able to find her way back home?
Sleep your way to a whiter smile...date a dentist!
Insane. We flew within 2 months of our daughter being born and will be taking her to Japan next year. It is an excuse for the lazy.
What model of aircraft is now full of people who loath you?
Good lord. I need more coffee to read this. There should be a limit on both the number of parenthesis allowed and the length of parenthetical tangents within.