Grr................. Anne Atkins

I think greatnan meant "Anne Atkins" has "got religion".

The grin was for when's space launch.

Newsflash Greatnan. Wars are very damaging to family relationships.

See. I still haven't chilled!

I'm off to the flippin' sunshine, while we've got it!

Anne Atkins also pontificates a lot on the subject of child-rearing. Of course, her family is perfect....

Haven"t heard of this woman at all , don"t even what station she is on , doesn"t seem too popular though

She was reporting some research which studied the relationship of babies of both sexes with their fathers during the first six months of life. This showed that boys who had loving and involved fathers during this short period at the start of their lives grew up to be less violent than boys whose fathers were less involved with them at this early stage.

I cannot remember all the details but the research was undertaken by a deparment of psychology at auniversity, I think, in the Netherlands and sample sizes and length of study seemed reasonable.

The research was not undertaken under any kind of religious auspices and as I said dealt only with the father's interaction with his son in the first six months.

....so it was about both boys and girls who spent their first few months with 'detached' biological fathers, as opposed to 'attached' fathers who undertook meaningful care? Hmmmm...!

Who's first with all the 'buts?' After you.....

I do thank the Lord for my son-in-law (grandsons' dad).

Thoug, DGS1 did whack that football very hard at my head.

Well, I suppose it is one more way to villify mothers who are deserted by the biological father.

jo4 I read it that way too!

Jingle, you appear to be spoiling for a fight - chill out, woman! - Isn't that a bit patronising?

I think you might need to refine your sense of humour a bit. - Just because someone doesn't see things the way you do surely doesn't mean you need to criticise their sense of humour.

Seems to me it's the religiacs who protest too much and the rest of us just take the piss. - I think it is cruel to 'take the piss' out of people who have different beliefs from you.

Now I realise that I will be open to attack here but i still don't understand why people feel it necessary to be so unpleasant.

Bit of stirring going on, eh?

Anyway, I don't want to be chilled.

Sounds really boring.

Rather than submit my opinion on the matter [such as it is] I shall turn around and go elsewhere. The vibes are threatening to give me a migrane.

Same here. It gets too much when the bickering starts.

when

Am I being told off here?

Alison the first line of your post was a quote from someone else's previous post, wasn't it?

Oh I'm leaving this one. Shall we just have cosy little group hugs all round?

Just to make my position quite clear on the actual subject though, I really do believe a child's biological father is always going to be an extremely important person in his or her life. I think it is a disaster when this does not or cannot come about. I believe also that the genetic pool comes into play inasmuch as it helps to provide an empathetic relationship.

I am not stirring there. Just putting my honestly held opinion.

I blame that Anne Atkins!

And I can't stand these silly winkings at each other!

Pathetic!

I wasn't winking at anyone - just hmm-ing!

I think AlisonMA's post could have been misunderstood.