Wednesday, November 07, 2012

The Heart Grows Smarter - NYTimes.com

Op-Ed Columnist

The Heart Grows Smarter

If you go back and read a bunch of biographies of people born 100 to 150 years ago, you notice a few things that were more common then than now.

First, many more families suffered the loss of a child, which had a devastating and historically underappreciated impact on their overall worldviews. 

Second, and maybe related, many more children grew up in cold and emotionally distant homes, where fathers, in particular, barely knew their children and found it impossible to express their love for them.

 .... The Heart Grows Smarter - NYTimes.com

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