Gay dads' brains show activity akin to both parents': study

[Jesus Malverde]

Source: Reuters

Having a baby alters new mothers' brain activity, researchers have found, and a new study adds the first evidence of such changes in the brains of gay men raising children they adopted through surrogacy.

The men's pattern of brain activity resembles that of both new mothers and new fathers in the study.

The research, reported on Monday, could feed into the debate over whether gay men should be allowed to adopt children. Many U.S. adoption agencies will not work with same-sex couples, and some states prohibit them from adopting.

The current study, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, was conducted in Israel, and builds on work by neuropsychologist Ruth Feldman of Bar-Ilan University and others, who showed that the brains of new mothers become hyper-reactive to their child's cries and other emotional cues.

It was not clear if that pattern is a result of the hormonal and other changes that accompany pregnancy or a response to the experience of motherhood.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/gay-dads-brains-show-activity-akin-both-parents-194429293.html

[truthisfreedom]

1. In other news, gays appear to be humans, too

[valerief]

2. I hope the guys don't have nipple leakage, too. nt

[shenmue]

3. Big news:

Gay people like to smile and have fun. Who knew?

[QuestForSense]

4. In related news, water is wet.

[groundloop]

5. A very simple explanation - lack of sleep

Young children tend to do that to parents.

[rocktivity]

6. As opposed to what -- the brain activity

of a single parent? Or a single GAY parent? Or an adoptive parent?


rocktivity

[dickthegrouch]

7. There's a rather disturbing study result on Huffpo currently

And a set of far more disturbing questions associated with the study on my FatFinger app.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/25/pedophile-brains-abnormal-reaction-kids-faces_n_5380897.html

FatFinger is a smartphone polling app which can be found in the Apple App Store (at least, it may be available for android as well, I don't know). Based on this research report, one of the questions FatFinger is asking today is "In 5 years time which do you think you'd trust more for predicting criminal traits, DNA or brain scans?"

That is the least disturbing question they are asking. Please consider getting the app and taking part in their polls. Since there are several hits on 'FatFinger' as a search in the app store, their icon is a yellow index finger pointing at a check mark on grey concentric circles).

I have no connection to FatFinger other than as a user.

[Skittles]

8. isn't that just saying gay men use more of their brains?