| There are some grounds to assume that a | | | | We are, all taken into consideration, animals |
| cognitive dissonance is involved in feeling | | | | and, therefore, subject to the same |
| that children are more a satisfaction than a | | | | instinctive behaviour patterns. There is no |
| nuisance. Why do people bother with | | | | point in looking for a reason: survival |
| parenting? It is time consuming, exhausting, | | | | itself (whether of the gene pool or, on a |
| strains otherwise pleasurable and tranquil | | | | higher level, of the species) is at stake. |
| relationships to their limits. Still, | | | | Breeding is a transport mechanism: handing |
| humanity keeps at it: breeding.It is the | | | | the precious cargo of genetics down |
| easiest to resort to Nature. After all, all | | | | generations of "organic containers". |
| living species breed and most of them parent. | | | | |