Agony + Ecstasy

Don’t treat parenthood as if it were a ‘THING’. Being a parent is a  natural evolving human process  throughout a normal life span. Without people with  intelligence  who are willing to be parents, we will continue to have plenty of children bred by those who are less able, and few or none, by those who are more able. For the survival of our mammal species  we need girls and boys in equal numbers.  Tinker with that quotient at the risk of everyone. Children are people who will remember  often in great detail EVERYTHING YOU DO. They are  not pets , nor are they property or inconvenient baggage. Treat children like this at your peril. Your children need to know what their  basic needs  are: Water, food, shelter, warmth/cooling, companionship. If you don’t  teach your children practical skills , you are letting them down. They need to know how to use tools to make things, get food, re-use things, adapt things to the use they ...

Gender is a social construct into which feed biological and social factors like: 1.       DNA which may be normal: or not normal. See DSD: disorders of sex development.  University of Michigan Health System 2.      Sexual differentiation: check out embryology of mammals, in particular humans.  Sexual Differentiation 3.      Visible external genitalia and the invisible internal sex organs which may be different again: e.g. Some people are born with testes  and  ovaries. And this is different from the DNA sex.  University of Michigan Health System 4.      Gestational chemistry: was the female infant bathed in testosterone which is thought to stimulate masculinity in behaviour or, alternatively the male infant getting too much of female hormones while developing. These situations occur because of drugs, drinking contaminated water, medication and a host of other reasons...