Service Dog Owner. Got a spazzy disorder. Lover of space and the sea. Woman of my word. Suspended for toast. Navy Veteran. Estoy aprendiendo español. Cher Ami
"If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves"
Happy Killdozer Day!
Teach your kids about Marvin Heemeyer just like you teach them about other American patriots who stood up against corruption, abuse of power, and systems that crush ordinary people.
Could it be the majority of women are right handed and use their dominate hand to do things while they hold their baby in their non-dominate hand? & as for the difference in postpartum/high stress lives, if you have high depression, you're probably not able to multitask as well?
Most moms cradle their baby on the left side. 65-80% of them do it, often without realizing they're doing it. The bias shows up across cultures, and even in great apes.
In theory, this is because when you hold a baby on your left, you put their face in your left visual field, which feeds into your right brain hemisphere. The right side of your brain is the one that handles faces and emotion.
Watch any group of mothers with babies. You'll see it.
What's interesting is that mothers with postpartum depression and high stress don't show the bias as strongly. Perhaps when you're depleted, your ability to tune in to your baby gets dulled too.
@oatmealjan Come here and I will give you some! Plus lettuce, basil, cilantro, jalapenos, chilis, or whatever else your heart desires that I am growing! I will have eggs in a few weeks too!
To the parents who terminate their children because they receive a less than favorable diagnosis. What do you do if your next child has another one?
Keep killing them till you get a “good one”?
Yes, the idea is that killing your children because they might have disabilities should not be normative and to see it announced like a job search decision is jarring and underscores that.
@thevivafrei This is what I like about men and being a man. Complete strangers immediately new how to work together. One of them took charge and the other was fine with being the subordinate to get the job done.
It’s sick that people are selfishly playing God with the lives of children.
Had unprotected sex?
Abortion.
A baby would be “inconvenient?”
Abortion.
“This will mess up college.”
Abortion.
Don’t feel like having another child?
Abortion.
Find out there’s a disability?
Abortion.
God’s wrath is coming and it’s going to be brutal.
Overwhelmingly, people view children as accessories to add to their lives when they desire rather than as gifts from God and indeed, the very purpose of the sexual union. Even among conservative Christians, this mindset is rampant.
We talk about kids like they're home improvement projects? "Are you guys ready for that, or are you going to keep waiting awhile?"
We talk about them as though they're Pokemon cards that you quit collecting one you have a complete set. "So now that you have a boy and a girl, are you done?"
We often look at large families with the same kind of disdain we have for hoarders. "That's so weird. Why do you need so many of those?"
Likewise, push away all the lamentations about wanting to save your unborn child from a lifetime of suffering and hardship through abortion, and you'll find the true mindset, where we respond to our children having disabilities the way we'd respond to a restaurant giving us the wrong food, something we simply refuse to eat.
"Waiter, I ordered a healthy baby. But you gave me this gross little deformed thing. Throw that away and give me what I actually ordered."
Not everyone will follow this mindset concerning children to such an evil degree. But if we wish to protect ourselves from it, we need to fundamentally change the way we think about children. Which is to say, we need to view parenthood vocationally rather than through a consumeristic lens.
Children are not trinkets. They are human beings, as human as you, and just as worthy of love and honor as you. Likewise, parenthood is not a lifestyle, a hobby, or an era. It's a vocation.
If a child is growing in your womb, God has already given you the vocation of mother. And a mother's vocation is always to protect and love her child, never to kill her child. If your child is growing in a woman's womb, God has already given you the vocation of father. And a father's vocation is always to protect his child, never to kill his child.
If God gives you that vocation when you're poor, fulfill it faithfully and trust that He will give you your daily bread. If God gives you that vocation when you don't feel ready for it, get over yourself and fulfill it faithfully. If God gives you that vocation by giving you a child who seems too difficult to care for, trust that He will also give you the strength to endure the task, and fulfill it faithfully.
May God save our souls and purify our hearts by changing our minds.