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The mothers aren't quite convinced.
Now one day it might be that mothers will hire an out-of-work, middle-aged, former steelworker guy to watch their children at home, and that would be good for the men, but that hasn't quite happened yet.
RG: And of course, we think it's precisely what you really should be saying to mothers who have kids for the first time.
So your 58 percent of mothers surveyed report feelings of loneliness.
We don't live in the world our mothers lived in, our grandmothers lived in, where career choices for women were so limited.
We had our mothers, our aunts, our cousins, our sisters, and of course, the ever-present media bombarding us with images and words, telling us how to be.
The activists I interviewed had nothing in common, literally, except for one thing, which was that they all cited their mothers as their most looming and important activist influences.
That DNA is passed down through our mothers.
For all the women, all the mothers that give life, you can give back, you can change.
And I want to think about the possibilities of what democracy might look like, or might have looked like, if we had more involved the mothers.
So whereas the Fathers were extremely attentive to figuring out how to protect individuals from the state, it's possible that if we injected more mothers into this concept, what we would have is more of a concept of not just how to protect, but how to care for each other.
And a majority of black boys are raised by single mothers.
And so today we focus on not just passing out food, but making sure the mothers have enough enrichment, and teaching them about breastfeeding.
EA: Estimates of how many innocent people are locked up range between one and four percent, which maybe doesn't sound like a lot, except that it amounts to around 87,000 people: mothers, fathers, sons locked up, often for decades, for crimes they did not commit.
But in reality, I don't know why I was really surprised by this story, because when I was five years old, and my mother, like mothers and fathers all across the United States, was taking me to school to enroll, she pushed my wheelchair to the school in walking distance to our house, pulled the wheelchair up the steps into the school, and we were greeted by the principal.
Paul was a teacher in a Detroit public school for pregnant and parenting mothers, and his idea was to teach the young women to raise their children by first raising plants and animals.
It's the kind of place where black doctors live next to white hipsters next to immigrant mothers from Hungary or talented writers from the jungles of Belize, showing me Detroit wasn't just black and white, and diversity could flourish when it's encouraged.
In rodents, it was known to make mothers care for their offspring, and in some creatures, allowed for toleration of burrowmates.
Today I want to share with you some of the amazing things that scientists are discovering about what fetuses learn while they're still in their mothers' bellies.
First of all, they learn the sound of their mothers' voices.
A sort of French version of this experiment was carried out in Dijon, France where researchers found that mothers who consumed food and drink flavored with licorice-flavored anise during pregnancy showed a preference for anise on their first day of life, and again, when they were tested later, on their fourth day of life.
Babies whose mothers did not eat anise during pregnancy showed a reaction that translated roughly as "yuck."
What this means is that fetuses are effectively being taught by their mothers about what is safe and good to eat.
To conclude, I want to tell you two stories about how mothers teach their children about the world even before they're born.
Decades after the "Hunger Winter," researchers documented that people whose mothers were pregnant during the siege have more obesity, more diabetes and more heart disease in later life than individuals who were gestated under normal conditions.
In other words, the mothers with post-traumatic stress syndrome had passed on a vulnerability to the condition to their children while they were still in utero.
It would mean that, even before birth, mothers are warning their children that it's a wild world out there, telling them, "Be careful."
After the researchers had learned all they could from the relationships in the family, mothers and other relationships, they still came up with some temperamental dark matter that was pulling at us, exerting a gravity all its own.
A study I cite in this TIME magazine covering in the book "The Sibling Effect," found 70 percent of fathers and 65 percent of mothers exhibit a preference for at least one child.
And some of those girls who walked in the room very shy have taken bold steps, as young mothers, to go out there and advocate for the rights of other young women.
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