By HELGA VIERICH
Updated: Sat, 24 Dec 2011 14:12:56 UTC

And I quote:

(from the Times review cited in this article [This] finding … helps make the case that women aren’t the only ones who are biologically wired for raising children. Decreased levels of testosterone may play a role in helping a man respond more sensitively to his children’s needs and those of his entire family. “If this weren’t something that had been normative in humans for the last 100,000 or more years, there would be no reason to expect this decline in testosterone,” says the study’s lead author, Lee Gettler.

Two personal speculations resulting from this research:

No wonder, when human cultures started doing real warfare, it was young unmarried men who were expected to be the warriors. Older married men with children either had to avoid parenting or become "sensitive".

Now about those celibate priests….some might be getting the same effect from "shepherding" their "flocks" but this might explain aspects of behaviour among a few of them that tend to embarrass the Catholic Church and perplex the rest of us.

Hmmm. What do you all think of this?

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