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...assume that every word has been made up. Invention gives Kate a pretty, childish mother, who falls in love (literally, as a result of repeated backward-flop trust exercises) with her therapist, a slightly sleazy charmer named Anton. What follows melds The Bobbsey Twins with On the Road. Mom drags the girls across the U.S. to meet her lover at Esalen, the California therapy spa, borrowing gas money from Kate, the sort of wise child who always has some. Then with Anton, his five children and a couple of hippy hitchhikers, they cross the country again in a large turquoise...
...newspaper ads suggesting that girls were having third-trimester abortions because they couldn't fit into their prom dresses remain pro-life hyperbole, but the Roman Catholic bishops who ran them are right when they say there is almost no difference between the prom Mom and a woman having a third-trimester abortion, except for location and a few days...
...sounds, given the genetics of gender. Boys, by definition, get one X chromosome from their mother and one Y from their father. Girls have two Xs, one from each parent. Girls with Turner's syndrome have only a single complete X, and it can come from either Mom or Dad; modern genetic tests can reveal which...
...study, a team led by research psychiatrist David Skuse of the Institute of Child Health in London ran those tests on 80 Turner's girls and then evaluated their social skills. It turned out that the ones with Mom's X were far more inept than those with a paternal chromosome...
...chromosome that governs social skills, and if those genes are activated only when they're passed on by the father. This phenomenon, called genetic imprinting, is known to occur in humans. Thus, says Skuse, boys are genetically destined to be inept because they get their X chromosome from Mom. Girls, by contrast, are socially adroit because they get one X from Dad (not that it did him any good, since he got it from his mom...