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...instance, both men and women can mother children-the necessary circuits are there in every brain-but the "threshold" for releasing this behavior is higher in males than in females. The same phenomenon is demonstrated by laboratory animals. If a mature female rat is put into a cage with newborn rats, she begins mothering them at once. In a similar situation, a male rat does nothing at first, but after a few days he too begins to display maternal behavior...
...responsibility for the care of infants, who grow up in special buildings away from their parents' homes. "We have learned that the metaplot are not enough; the first year is a critical one," says Educator Benjamin Katznelson. Mothers now get six weeks off from work to nurse their newborn children; for six months after that they work only half time, spending the rest of the day with their babies...
Names have been a matter of high national policy in France since 1539, when King François I decreed that the names of all newborn children had not only to be registered but also submitted to priests for approval, which usually meant that the names had to be chosen from the saints' hagiography. Still, by 1803 the proliferation of names was such that a law was enacted strictly limiting the selection of first names to those of the saints or of Greek, Roman or biblical origin. Charles de Gaulle loosened the names policy somewhat in 1966, but French...
...ambivalence that men still feel at the death of someone close must have been experienced by primitive man. "It was beside the dead body of someone he loved," wrote Freud, "that he invented spirits, and his sense of guilt at his satisfaction, mingled with his sorrow, turned these newborn spirits into evil demons that had to be dreaded. His persisting memory of the dead became the basis for assuming other forms of existence and gave him the conception of life continuing after apparent death...
...MUCH MORE TO SAVE THE LIVES OF NEWBORN CHILDREN. Infant mortality is higher in the U.S. than in 20 other nations and territories. Indeed, the U.S. rate is almost double that of Sweden or The Netherlands, where high-quality, state-supported medical services are easily available to all people, whether rich or poor, urban or rural. Last year 75,000 American infants died within one year of birth. A disproportionately large number of these were born to mothers who were young (under 20), poor and/or black. Either because of lack of education or lack of money, such women often...