What if the maternal instinct is a myth?

In her book "Mother Brain: How Neuroscience Is Rewriting The Story Of Parenthood,” science journalist Chelsea Conaboy argues that the idea that women are natural caregivers isn’t distinctly female.

“The story we've told about mothers is that women are natural, innate caregivers, that we come to this work automatically, that it just sort of springs forth from us as soon as a child is placed in our arms. And that it is really distinctly female, and that that's based in science,” Conaboy said. “And none of those things are true.”

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