[married21]

I think there is a slight advantage to a breastfeeding mother, over a father, during infancy. There is chemistry there. After that, things sort of even out, although it does seem to me that people in their 20s find themselves reconnecting with Dad, getting his guidance and blessing, so to speak, as they go into careers.

[yarddog]

Fathers make good Fathers and Mothers make good Mothers.

If a family loses one the other will usually take on some of the characteristics of their opposite parent. At least that is how it used to be.

Of course not every family is ideal or totally typical.

[yldstrk]

no

[AbolishCSEU]

Ok, why is a three year old not sleeping throught the night? I find a lot of modern parents don’t allow their children when infants to self-sooth and pick them up for the slightest noise the infant makes. Once in a great while a child will have a nightmare which is understandable. And a lot of the “night terrors” can be linked to a poor diet, not enough exercise and fresh air.

And don’t get me started on co-sleeping!!!

The very same children become unable to self-entertain as well, needing mommy or daddy’s attention for everything they do. Kids can’t play on their own these days without mommy or daddy helicoptering.

[Hieronymus]

Our priest went on a rant about this article at the end of Mass today (a deacon had preached the homily).

“Do bulls make good cows? Do roosters make good hens? These people are (some Polish word) crazy.”

[4rcane]

why dont they test this theory out in the animal world. The male and female species tend to perform different funtions

[Old Sarge]

Experts say special ‘maternal instincts’ are a societal construct

Makes sense, especially among Leftist women - after all, they're very quick to kill their offspring...

[BenLurkin]

“Experts say special ‘maternal instincts’ are a societal construct”

http://www.johnspeedie.com/healy/crap.wav

[ConorMacNessa]

"Experts say special ‘maternal instincts’ are a societal construct."

Really? what about biological instinct?

In a society that lauds single mothers and derides the traditional family, it is no surprise that some so-called "expert" comes out with such a pronouncement.

Maternal instinct is not a "social construct." It is rather a basic biological instinct, exhibited across the Animal Kingdom in numerous species.

America demands Justice for the Fallen of Benghazi!

O stranger, tell the Lacedaemonians that we lie here, obedient to their command.

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

[Nifster]

some people are so stupid it isn’t worth commenting on

[dr_lew]

"I blame society"

[goodwithagun]

My husband is amazing. He works 24 and is off 48. He does almost all of our laundry, vacuums and steam mops, and fixes the kids their lunches. That stated, he is not mommy and I am not daddy. We have two different roles regardless of his ability to separate clothes, operate a floor cleaning machine, and slap together PB&Js.

[odawg]

Yep, that is why it’s completely okay to walk up to a bear and pick up her cub, or for a stranger to walk up to a dog and pick up one of her pups. Those animals have never been brainwashed by an evil patriarchal society.

[Gay State Conservative]

The best adjusted kids have both a sane,decent,loving and reasonably intelligent father *and* mother.Both boys *and* girls benefit,over time,from having two such parents.One need only look at the inner cities,large,medium sized and even small,to see what happens when boys grow up without fathers.

[Tax-chick]

People fall into roles. I don’t think a man is incapable of waking up at night and doing something useful ... he just knows he doesn’t have to, so he doesn’t.

When our dog had cancer and needed pain medication at night, and we had a nursing baby, I told my husband, “You have to change your settings so that ‘rattling of dog collar and whimpering’ means ‘Get up and let her out and give her a pill,’ instead of, ‘Wait for someone else to do it.’ I couldn’t stop nursing the baby to take care of the dog.

Actually, I mostly could, with only an occasional swift kick when the dog obviously needed help and the baby couldn’t be detached. You’re either a nurturer or you don’t give a sh*t.

[fr_freak]

When the children are young, Mommy is crucial for nurturing (assuming that there are any women in the West who still have the nurturing instinct left unsullied). When the children, especially boys, reach the age of reason, about 8,9,10 or so depending in the child, then Daddy becomes crucial. Without Daddy at that stage, boys become sissies or gangbangers and girls become whores. Yes, there are exceptions, so everybody calm their PC buttocks down.

[vpintheak]

I would love to slap the living crappy out of these “experts”