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“current sociobiologists and primatologists, such as Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, maintain that loving motherhood is not automatically programmed into the female of our species but is an extremely complex equation of genetic, evolutionary, emotional, and social factors aided by powerful hormonal influences”
― Barbara Almond, The Monster Within: The Hidden Side of Motherhood

“But every mother is also the person she is, with the temperament she was born with and the early experiences she had with her own family and society. And every child is born with some inbuilt temperament and genetic endowment, although with enormous brain plasticity and capacity for development. It”
― Barbara Almond, The Monster Within: The Hidden Side of Motherhood

“current sociobiologists and primatologists, such as Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, maintain that loving motherhood is not automatically programmed into the female of our species but is an extremely complex equation of genetic, evolutionary, emotional, and social factors aided by powerful hormonal influences.”
― Barbara Almond, The Monster Within: The Hidden Side of Motherhood