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Dad here. Maybe…it’s the lack of sleep? Involved fathers tend to have less sleep.
I swear my hearing got more sensitive with kids. Also, some commercials hit differently.
I find it very odd that the rest of the comments are sort of... not agreeing with the findings in the article. I became a father recently (:D) and it's been an emotional rollercoaster for me. I had been frantically Googling my "symptoms" and asking around what's wrong with me, because it seems I've been quite sensitive since the birth of my baby. One way to explain this is the Gordon Ramsay meme ( https://imgflip.com…
The one big difference is up to now I though crying babies were annoying and subconsiously somehow blamed parents. Now I see how foolish that was as babies are born knowing nothing and are just adorable little people trying their best to get their needs met and handle emotions.
By the time Gettler looked into this field, it was already an established fact that fathers had lower testosterone that [sic] men without kids. I'm sure this typo will be promptly corrected. But it does offer some sense into how thoroughly this article was proofread prior to publication.
> And the men that had spent longer looking after babies showed the largest drops in testosterone. Those that shared a bed with their infants also had lower levels. Dad here. Maybe…it’s the lack of sleep? Involved fathers tend to have less sleep.
By the time Gettler looked into this field, it was already an established fact that fathers had lower testosterone that [sic] men without kids. I'm sure this typo will be promptly corrected. But it does offer some sense into how thoroughly this article was proofread prior to publication.
Positive sign that this article wasn't AI
Saw this earlier today, I think it’s very flawed and ideological, unfortunately other posts mentioning this got flagged. First there’s the idea that “nurturing” is somehow what kids need and better for them automatically, that whatever a stereotypical man does with kids is bad for them, and we need to be rewired by pheromones or whatever to be more sensitive. And as a corollary the idea that a high-T man somehow is a…
> And the men that had spent longer looking after babies showed the largest drops in testosterone. Those that shared a bed with their infants also had lower levels. Dad here. Maybe…it’s the lack of sleep? Involved fathers tend to have less sleep.