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• All That Glitters

  “My uncle wants to come,” Jasmin announced as she sat in the hard wooden chair by my desk, looking worried. She was almost due, and as her obstetrician, I was seeing her for what she hoped might be her final prenatal visit. She wanted to know how many people could be present in the delivery…

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  July 30, 2019

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  abuse, Edith Hall, ethical relativism, heroes, historical revisionism, Julian Baggini, musingsonwomenshealth.com, philosophy, prejudice, prenatal visits, social milieu

• A Pound of Flesh?

    I’m retired now, and my kids have long since passed the age when, even if I were so disposed, I would dare lay a hand on either them or their children. But of course I wouldn’t -parenting wasn’t like that in my family. I suspect I rarely hung out in the Goldilocks zone in…

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  January 9, 2019

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  African proverb, Elisa Romano, https://musingsonwomenshealth.com/2017/05/17/time-out-eh/, musingsonwomenshealth.com, musingsonwomenshealth.com/…/consequences-the-smacking-laws, Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT), spanking, The Conversation, the Incredible Years (IY) program, the Nurse Family Partnership (NFP), time-out, Tracie O Afifi, UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), University of Manitoba, University of Ottawa, verbal abuse

• Eternal Maternal?

  Some things are just not said, just not considered. They fall so far outside of our Weltanschauung they are inadmissible. And we take such comfort in their ubiquity that we no longer feel a need to discuss them. They are so self-evidently true, so axiomatic to our understanding of existence that they seem indispensable. Crucial……

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  October 25, 2017

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  altruism, Angela Saini, babies, community support, cultural assumptions, cultural norms, evolution, Guardian newspaper, instinct, love, maternal bonds, maternal instinct, maternal support, motherhood, mothers, musingsonwomenshealth.com, sacrosanct, survival benefits