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TL;DR: Parents, including fathers, who spend more time with their babies come to recognize their cries better. Not sure if that's really as counter-intuitive a

• belorn 13y ago
  They explains this in the article. They cite a study that show that around 50% of people think than mothers are better at recognize their child cries than fathers.
  • akent 13y ago
    "But previous studies didn't take into account the amount of time parents typically spent with their children on a daily basis." I'm saying the new finding that "more time -> better able to recognize" is also not surprising.
    • saraid216 13y ago
      You were offered evidence; you are not offering counter-evidence.
  • firefoxman1 13y ago
    > Every mother participating in the study spent enough time with their kids to develop the skill tested, while just about half of the fathers did It seems like this data explains that stereotype. Mothers are often "better" at it because they often spend the time with their kids to develop that skill.
• Deestan 13y ago
  > Not sure if that's really as counter-intuitive as the article suggests. At least it is a comprehensible argument against the myth that women are intrinsically or genetically better at it than men.
• hrktb 13y ago
  When my child was born, one of the first things my mother told me was that there is a special link between the mother and child that men underestimate. She was warned me that as a father, whatever happens I will never be as close to my child as his mother would be. That was her intuition as a mother. Again when you hear the discussions about which side a child should go during a divorce, 'children goes with the mother' is a baseline, and you have to bring up severe flaws in the personality or sociability of the mother to have the father considered as a viable alternative (at least that's how it went with my relatives) Studies focusing on the parents skills and involvment in the child's life often bring seemingly obvious but still counter to the general population's concensus results.
  • qznc 13y ago
    Similar experience here. I believe, if the mother is breast-feeding, then she inevitably has more bonding time with the baby and they will establish a deeper relationship then with the father. Playing around during swaddling is then the only chance in the first months, where the father can have "quality time" with his baby.