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Date: | Mon, 1 Jul 1996 09:18:44 -0500 |
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Belinda Bohnert, commenting on what I wrote about wet-nursing in western
Europe, says:
>I'm not sure I believe, at least in the US, "that childrearing is still
>reguarded as *the most important thing a woman does with her life"
Belinda -- I was saying this was true of many places in the world still
today, but NOT the U.S.!! Of course I realize that sadly this isn't the
case in the U.S. any more. Fathering gets even shorter shrift in our society.
Our evolutionary heritage suggests that the mother-child bond should be the
strongest one, regardless of what our specific "culture" tells us at any
particular time and place.
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