Dad brains: How fatherhood rewires the male mind
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#3As a father of 3 daughters now approaching 50 with my oldest now 24 … I will say that I believe some of this is true. Perhaps it is just the life altering effect of raising children or maybe is biological as well. You can definitely pickup on whether another male is a father or not.
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#5Mom brain is also a thing. Large scale, consistent, structural changes in the postpartum brain that is uncorrelated with PPD.
https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhab463
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I wouldn't say it's baseless... Instead, I would say it's flawed base making very sweeping statements that make it sound like good science [1].
Moreover, there exist fathers who are non-committal (e.g. cheat) and thus, disproving this.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Blaffer_Hrdy#Mothers_and...
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#9 By the time Gettler looked into this field, it was already an established fact that fathers had lower testosterone that [sic] men without kids.
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