Re: hi from Idaho

On Jul 27, 8:20=A0pm, Ann Burlingham <a...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Lane <absolutel...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
> > Also, we know from animals, that there are instinctive behaviors
> > around paternity that probably existed in humans before any cognitive
> > awareness of the benefits those behaviors might confer. In other
> > words, fathers probably behaved like fathers instinctively before
> > anybody knew that they had a biological role in their offspring.
>
> Depends on what you mean by "behaving like fathers" - there are a lot
> of different behaviors, including the one re****ted on by the women
> serving me lunch Thursday: the father of her 3-year-old is getting
> married to another woman, and asked her, the mother of his child, if,
> although he loved his child to bits, her boyfriend couldn't adopt the
> child and pay for its upkeep.

Argh. I don't envy that kid. Doesn't sound like dad is going to be all
that attentive.

But, I wasn't referring to any specific notion of fatherhood behavior.
Just pointing out that behaviors can be instinctive and not
necessarily always informed by insight.

Lane