Real or hoax

The existence of maternal instinct has been debated for centuries are women truly capable of almost supernatural intuition when it comes to reproduction and children , or is it a hoax made up by women in to validate their own importance ? Urban legends have abounded about women who can perform supernatural feats when the life of a child is at stake . Many women insist that the desire to reproduce is inherent and instinctual reasoning that often provides an excuse for tricking ' a man into fatherhood . The truth is that evolution and years of scientific

br and psychological evidence back up what women already knew : maternal instinct is a fact , not a fairy tale

One explanation for maternal instinct is simple biology : a woman 's body is designed for producing children . Her body begins preparing for this task in her early teens (if not sooner long before she is financially or emotionally ready to have children , and this has an effect on her emotional development . As her body 's energies are focused on preparing for childbirth , she doesn 't have the resources to develop other qualities (such as the hunter-gatherer ' mentality (Bohan , 96 . Darwin 's view on maternal instinct was this : men tend to be more selfish , less emotional and far less likely to dedicate himself to the care of a child . On an evolutionary scale , women developed the maternal instinct over time in to ensure the survival of her children Darwin also noted that with woman the powers of intuition , of rapid perception , and perhaps of imitation , are more strongly marked than in man (Civello , 1

Feminists protested this idea they believe that the concept of maternal instinct was a way to encourage women to stay in the home

One of the oldest urban legends is that of the woman with maternal instincts so strong that she was able to lift a car off of her baby in to safe its life . This story is just that , an urban legend . There is no basis in fact , nor can anyone pinpoint an actual story in which this occurred . The truth is that maternal instinct is just that instinct . It is not superhuman , nor is it oppressive . This instinct is not a hoax , the hoax is trying to convince others that it doesn 't exist .Works Cited "Automobiles " Mom Lifts Car . 2006 . Urban Legends Reference Pages . 4 Nov 2006

Civello , Paul "Evolutionary Feminism , Popular Romance and Frank Norris 's 'Man 's Woman " Studies in American Fiction 24 .1 (1996 : 23 "3 Functionalism , Darwinism , and the Psychology of Women : A Study in Social Myth " Seldom Seen , Rarely Heard : Women 's Place in Psychology Ed . Janis S . Bohan . Boulder , CO : Westview Press , 1992 . 79-101...