Learning something new with every childfree article
At this point, I've read a gazillion articles about being childfree, nevertheless I'm constantly learning something new. For example, from this new article in the Telegraph:
--Beautiful, intelligent actress Helen Mirren is childfree! I didn't know! She has been immediately added to the Childfree Hall of Fame!
--If there was a childfree gene hall of fame, this would be an entry:
According to the Office of National Statistics, one in five British women in their thirties has decided not to have children. And it may be that a number of these have had less choice in the matter than they thought. Geneticists at the Welcome Trust Sanger Institute in Cambridge have demonstrated in mice that mutations on a certain gene can cause mothers to neglect their offspring. The same gene also exists in humans.
There's more. Check out the story!
Incidentally, if Nicki Defago, the awesome childfree British author from England is reading, you and I need to compare notes!
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--Beautiful, intelligent actress Helen Mirren is childfree! I didn't know! She has been immediately added to the Childfree Hall of Fame!
--If there was a childfree gene hall of fame, this would be an entry:
According to the Office of National Statistics, one in five British women in their thirties has decided not to have children. And it may be that a number of these have had less choice in the matter than they thought. Geneticists at the Welcome Trust Sanger Institute in Cambridge have demonstrated in mice that mutations on a certain gene can cause mothers to neglect their offspring. The same gene also exists in humans.
There's more. Check out the story!
Incidentally, if Nicki Defago, the awesome childfree British author from England is reading, you and I need to compare notes!
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3 Comments:
The universe is at work here. I just read about either the same or a similar study on little white mice in the book I was reading on the streetcar yesterday -- "The Childless Revolution" by Madelyn Cain. Planning to post a thorough review of the work on the Purple Women team blog that I have created for childfree women. PLease visit. Your book was reviewed in December! I picked it off the shelf at a store on Queen Street in Toronto.
The study was called, "Abnormal Maternal Behavior and Growth Retardation Associated with Loss of the Imprinted Gene Mest," Nature Genetics (October 1998): 167, according to the author's footnotes.
I don't know if I completely buy this. I mean, sure, there may be a genetic predisposition to not wanting children, but a lot of people who are neglectful, uninterested parents still have children. Maybe they have the gene too, and aren't smart enough to fight the social stigmas of childlessness? I don't know; it would seem then that the gene is more common than just something showing up in childfree people. Childfree people are perhaps just a bit better at separating social pressure from biology.
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