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The Importance of Hormones in Parenting
Research shows mothers brains can develop something akin to a maternal instinct over time. In fathers and other non-ducational parents, the same factors are at play, hormones and experience. So we go through really powerful changes, fascinating adaptations that connect us to our children. That is real. It's just not a fixed pattern of behavior, which is what an instinct is.