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