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Originally posted by raeanna74
OH and propagation of the DNA would only be a potential end result of the example I gave earlier. A mother or father for that matter is not staying near their child to comfort it in an effort to preserve that child's DNA. If they only have a simple cold they'll likely survive sleeping in their bed as well as in the parents arms. Holding the child isn't for any purpose other than to comfort that child. The parents could just as easily juts go to check on the child periodically and still make sure the child doesn't get worse.
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Children need comfort from their parents to to develop "normally." A child who can function in this world is a better guarantee that the parents' genes will continue. Think of the (poor) Rhesus monkeys.
"He discovered that an infant rhesus monkey will cling to a soft mannequin monkey rather than to a wire mannequin monkey even when the wire mannequin supplies the baby with milk."
"When an infant was clinging to its surrogate mother the scientists would eject the spines and the infant would be painfully pushed away from its 'mother'."
"Harlow then impregnated some of these socially and emotionally crippled monkeys. When their babies were born Harlow documented all the many ways they killed their own children."