The neurodevelopmental boost of moms from childbirth

Posted by James Bowery on Sunday, 19 February 2006 19:31.

A lot of feminists like to blither about how they aren’t mature enough to raise a child until they are running a risk of Downs syndrome if not menopause. Rational people wonder how they could be so stupid but it may be a natural result of childlessness.

The upshot of pregnancy, Dr. Kinsley says, is a maternal brain changed forever in critical ways—not just different, but vastly improved.

Can you imagine a drug to produce the neurological enhancements of pregnancy? A number of young women might choose to enhance their mental function thinking they needed that “competitive edge” to “get established in a career”. Then, much to their dismay, they realize they are being stupid and stand a hope of choosing to have children before it is too late! Who knows, they might even choose to drop the entire project of political correctness for the sham it is. As such they might start voting more rationally but also start demanding characteristics of the sires of their children that made more sense.

Comments:

Posted by A. Windaus on Mon, 20 Feb 2006 02:04 | #

This article was first in Scientific American (Jan 2006) which is 7 pages long, compared to this which is only 3.

I have to wonder, if having a child rewrites the female brain, is it possible that constant use of the Birth Control Pill rewrites the brain also?

I read this article you provided, it was slightly different then the one I mentioned, but I have to say I never like it when someone says something like “we humans have a lot of evolution to get past”, now, why must we screw with nature like we actually know anything? Millions of years of evolution compared to the wisdom of a few so called “experts” doesn’t seem to stand a chance these days!

Posted by JW Holliday on Mon, 20 Feb 2006 08:16 | #

James,

As you are of course aware, the amygdala is involved in both racial recognition and autism. That it is influenced by pregnancy is remarkable, given that all these issues - racial reality, immigration and its potential effect on autism, and the feminist attack on white family formation - all stem from memetic attacks on ECs by others, particularly NECs (a group which can reasonably be seen to include Freidan, Steinam, Dworkin, Ignatiev, and Wise).

These data suggest that many social pathologies are being induced not only at a cultural level, but at a physiological level as well.

One wonders as well if there is a link between racial recognition and autism with respect to the amygdala. Perhaps, the amygdala of young (white) children can efficiently process differences between whites, blacks, and East Asians, but become “confused” when confronted with South Asian phenotypes, which exhibit characteristics of different continental racial groups in one package. This “confusion” may damage the normal development and function of the amygdala, if it occurs often and/or in conjunction with some sort of emotional shock, or in particularly vulnerable populations (e.g, Finns).

One problem with my hypothesis is that - and if I am wrong correct me - there is no correlation between autism rates and Hispanic demographics. Unless, we speculate that Hispanic phenotypes can be more easily “binned” by the amygdala than are those of South Asians.

Of course, this hypothesis may be completely incorrect, but I state it nonetheless as another idea to be considered.