I am shocked by the responses I have received to this comment. First off, I thought it was a lot more conventionally understood that mothers' bodies undergo pe

I am shocked by the responses I have received to this comment. First off, I thought it was a lot more conventionally understood that mothers' bodies undergo permanent hormone-driven changes during pregnancy - and that these changes yield some more-or-less common outcomes across cultures and locales. [0] One of those outcomes is the following: > The researchers found that the mothers had surprisingly consistent responses to their crying babies, “and in a very short amount of time from the start of the cry, five seconds, they preferred to pick up and hold or to talk to their infant,” Bornstein said. I also thought it was much more conventionally understood that fathers do not exhibit the same changes as mothers do. [1] Nevertheless, I want to make it clear that I do not have children. My understanding of this phenomenon stems from my background in psychoacoustics, not child-rearing. Second, though, and perhaps more importantly, I am pretty disappointed in this community for laboring to interpret my points as misogynistic, out of touch with modern norms, or whatever, when a simple google search would have easily brought my points into context. Perhaps I failed to follow the conventions of citing resources to learn more about these things, but as I already indicated I didn't do this because I thought the majority of those commenting would have already been aware of this research. I apologize for not including it and I will try to do better in the future. [0] https://www.cnn.com/2017/10/23/health/moms-babies-crying-response-universal-study https://www.cnn.com/2017/10/23/health/moms-babies-crying-res... [1] https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/womens-mens-brains-respond-differently-hungry-infants-cries https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/womens-mens-br...