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[ailbhe]

"Most women now work and their new economic independence contributes to levels of family break-up which are higher in the UK than in any other Western European country."

Because trapping women through economic dependence is good for children. And fathers have NOTHING TO DO WITH IT.

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but apparently we are very good at raising chimps...

[(Anonymous)]

Guardian, 2 Feb 2009

"Chimps ahead of children with human mothering
Infant chimpanzee orphans given special human "mothering" are more advanced than the average child at nine months of age, according to a study by Professor Kim Bard of the University of Portsmouth. She looked at 46 chimpanzees at the Yerkes National Primate Research Centre in Atlanta in the United States in the 1980s and 1990s and found that youngsters given extra emotionally based care were more cognitively advanced than human infants. The study was a "stark warning" that just looking after physical needs was likely to result in a child who was maladjusted, she said."

Re: but apparently we are very good at raising chimps...

[leedy.livejournal.com]

The study was a "stark warning" that just looking after physical needs was likely to result in a child who was maladjusted, she said.

What? So what sort of "special human mothering" did the "less-developed" human children get? Were they raised in a box?

The lesson is obviously that, as humans, we are wasting our parenting skills on humans, when we can get much better results from parenting apes.

Re: but apparently we are very good at raising chimps...

[rmc28]

Actually, what we want to know is about the "normally"-mothered chimps, not comparing with humans. A 9-month-old puppy is more advanced than a 9-month-old child.

There might well have been a "stark warning" in the full text of what Professor Kim Bard said, but not in what's got reported. Where's the data? (oh dear I am channelling Ben Goldacre again)