<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/22/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Mike Ballard</b> <<a href="mailto:swillsqueal@yahoo.com.au">swillsqueal@yahoo.com.au</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div><span class="e" id="q_10dd5ba4cdc5062d_1">On 9/21/06, mike larkin <<a href="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" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
<font color="#003399">mike_larkin2001@yahoo.com</font></a>> wrote:<br>><br>><br>> <br><a href="http://www.macleans.ca/topstories/life/article.jsp?content=20060925_133622_133622" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
<font color="#003399">http://www.macleans.ca/topstories/life/article.jsp?content=20060925_133622_133622</font></a><br>> Rather, all kids need is at least one parent who is a responsible,<br>> loving and steady caregiver. Overwhelmingly, though,
<br>> mothers tend to fill that role.<br>><br><br>It also helps to have a roof over your head and a decent school to go <br>to and a neighborhood where you can play and when you ask for bread not to get <br>a stone. But that would be utopia, you
know.<br><br>Jerry<br></span></div>***************************************************</div> <div>One, two, three, many loving, steady, caregiving parents!</div> <div> </div> <div>Collectively yours,</div> <div>MIke B)
</div> <div> </div></blockquote></div><br>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.
<br><br>Jerry<br>