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To: epicure who wrote (4924)	7/2/2001 5:55:40 AM
From: thames_sider	Respond to of 6089

Maybe I'm just being sentimentalist <g> but I do suspect that most of the time a mother will be the most nurturing of her children. After all, she's necessarily had the most intimate relationship possible with them for nine months or so... quite literally, 'flesh of her flesh'. I can't see how anyone else, even the father, could have that kind of bond. I'm not saying that men can't, or won't, be fantastic and loving parents - just that ceteris paribus the mother should/will be closest. Men should be raised to be closer to their children, surely, but I can't see that we can really surpass in this field. And, of course, even if we overcome the 'cultural' elements, I suspect there are ultimately more hardwired forces at work - the hormonal makeup of men and women is still different, and genetics can't be totally over-ridden... yet...