The parents of now are not like those of before and that is why some of us even dare to tell it, because we are closer, more empathetic and we are more committed to the care of our children.
Now, there is a universal phrase that must be as old as humanity and that even today, despite everything, is still in force, which says that "Mother there is only one", and that could be explained, in part, because women's brains respond more intensely to the sadness and pain of others.
Differences between mothers and fathers
This, if we extrapolate it to the role of father and mother in parenting, comes to say that Mothers are more affected and respond more when their child shows them pain or sadness, which more or less would come to be when they cry. It's not that men don't act, it's not that we don't go when they cry or need us, it's that our brain response to those inputs It is smaller. This conclusion has reached scientists from the University of Navarra, who they have not seen differences in the response of male and female brains to a happy face.
Apparently they wanted to study and analyze the biological roots of empathy, to know at what point of the brain and how it is produced. In some experiments they saw that when a loved one suffers pain, it is activated in the brain the same emotional pain centers as the person suffering from it indeed, the answer being greater the greater the affection for the person who suffers. This activation, that feeling pain without actually suffering, makes women feel compassion and can understand what the other person is living.
Moreover, in the experiments they saw that Through the faces of others we are already able to recognize their wishes and intentions and to take charge of your inner situation. We will succeed more or we will do less, but through their nonverbal communication, through their gestures, we can intuit many things. This would be something like the first impression, that which gives us the first information and makes us calm before a person that we know or believe that plays fair (the brain areas of the reward are activated) and that makes us nervous before a person whose face shows us to be unsupportive, having little cerebral reaction.
And what is the use of knowing this?
Well, it helps us to get to know a little more men and women and to understand why women tend to be more attentive and willing with their children, more protective, and men tend to believe that children have to shake a little more, that I do not say go from them to do everything alone, but rely more on their possibilities to find a solution to the problems that can be present.
The question is what was before, if the egg or the chicken, if the mothers react more to the crying and pain of the children because they have always been like this or yes, as a result of the establishment of roles thousands of years ago, with the man trying to find food and the woman, with less physical aptitudes, dedicating himself to the care of children, he ended up occur the adaptation of their brains to that role of caretakers and protectors.
