![]() ![]() ![]() The research on whether most do or do not is ambiguous, but the fancy persists, in part because, consciously or unconsciously, people think that emphasizing the resemblance will set a man’s mind at ease, thus fortifying the paternal bond. ![]() New parents are often told how much their babies look like the father. Years ago, I saw a female standup do a routine in which she swaggered across the stage like a dude, telling the audience, “Yeah, I don’t have any kids”-pause-“that I know of.” It still makes me laugh. Pregnancy and childbirth showed the world who the mother was paternity could only be assumed. For most of history, one essential, immutable difference between men and women was that men could hide the fact that they had created a child and women could not. ![]()
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