[lbo-talk] Why Fathers Are Unnecessary

[Jerry Monaco]

On 9/22/06, Mike Ballard <swillsqueal at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
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> On 9/21/06, mike larkin <mike_larkin2001 at yahoo.com<http://us.f514.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=mike_larkin2001@yahoo.com&YY=59490&y5beta=yes&y5beta=yes&order=up&sort=date&pos=0>>
> wrote:
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> http://www.macleans.ca/topstories/life/article.jsp?content=20060925_133622_133622
> >  Rather, all  kids need is at least one parent who is a responsible,
> > loving and steady caregiver. Overwhelmingly, though,
> > mothers tend to fill that role.
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> It also helps to have a roof over your head and a decent school to go
> to and a neighborhood where you can play and when you ask for bread not to
> get
> a stone.  But that would be utopia, you know.
>
> Jerry
> ***************************************************
> One, two, three, many loving, steady, caregiving parents!
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> Collectively yours,
> MIke B)
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Which is essentially the "moral" of sociobiologist Sarah Blaffer Hrdy's
"Mother Nature: A History of Mothers, Infants, and Natural Selection."
Humans (and many primates and some birds) do better through cooperative
parenting; it is better for the mother, the child, and for society at large
when many (trusted and trusting) people share in parenting.

Jerry
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