The Case Against Women Raising Children: Why the Mother Should Never Be the Primary Care-Giver

by CARLSSON KATHLEEN RYAN

• ISBN13: 9780738861760
• ISBN10: 0738861766
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-03-01
• Publisher: Replica Books

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	9	(2)
Introduction	11	(6)
The Child Care Provider (Animal or Human) Evolves a Body and Personality Suitable to the Task	17	(21)
Costs versus benefits	17	(1)
Care of young by both parents	18	(4)
Female care of young	22	(3)
Care of young solely by the father	25	(6)
How the human child-care role has evolved provider-men and caring-women	31	(7)
How the Child Care Role Changed Female Brains: You are What You do	38	(16)
Are male and female brains different? or used differently?	38	(4)
Being subordinate leads to brain change	42	(2)
Are people hormonally primed for (or by) child care?	44	(2)
Experience with babies makes good parents	46	(3)
Infant cues appeal to parents	49	(2)
Can the experience of child care alter the brain?	51	(3)
We Have Evolved the Ability to Choose our Direction	54	(9)
Don't wait for evolution: use your brain	54	(2)
Our culture changes us, and we change our culture	56	(7)
The Case Against Fathers Working Full Time	63	(22)
The Mommy track begins	63	(2)
From the Industrial Revolution to the computer revolution mothers lost their breadwinner role	65	(1)
The mommy track as a trap	66	(1)
Child's primary identification with the female induces gender stereotypes	67	(1)
Girls' development	67	(7)
Boys' development	74	(4)
Power and helplessness	78	(7)
Bibliography	85	(14)
Index	99