Anyone else hear the study on NPR today? A study of 600 men in the Philippines discovered that single men with high levels of testosterone experienced significant decreases after becoming fathers.
Here's a link to the NPR transcript.
Researchers acknowledge this may have something to do with sleep deprivation - a common side effect of parenting. But even so, the research is encouraging. Lee Gettler, a Northwestern researcher and the lead author of the study, explains:
"It's not just mothers that have an innate, kind of biological orientation towards childcare, men have that ability, too. And so I think that this can really broaden our idea of men as fathers and what the traditional role fathers should be perhaps, or what it means to 'be a man.'" he said.
That's kind of cool.
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