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From KQED.

From KQED.

From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Alexis Madrigal. 25 years ago, anthropologist Sarah Blaffer-Hurdy wrote a celebrated book called Mother Nature

that explained and challenged many conceptions of mothering.

Now she's got a new work called Father Time, a natural history of men and babies, which argues

that the explosion of care for young children among men has ancient evolutionary roots.

She shows how across time and cultures there have been better and worse configurations

of kinship and care for the well-being of children, and that there's no simple version of what's natural

when it comes to men's roles in our families.

That's all coming up next, right after this news.

Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal. It was, even 10 years ago, still pretty common to hear men say, well, as a dad, you're pretty useless for the first year, or babies only care about the mom, of course. And looking around, it seemed to be sort of true sometimes.

Even dads who seemed to delight in their babies didn't seem to have the ability to

soothe their kids in the way that mothers and the families that I saw did.

When things were going well, both parents were engaged, but when the baby started to fuss,

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