#childen

[quovadisamerica]

Patriots, please give this a quick listen.

[alunah-lalunah]

Who and why does pay the price of your playing the secondary little god?

Women retain reproductive power. The biological asymmetry never disappeared: women alone gestate, give birth, and initially rear. That means they hold the bottleneck of reproduction. Men are, in evolutionary terms, optional extras. They add support and genes, but they are not structurally required in the same way.

Men as expendable. Historically, men bought “indispensability” by providing protection, food, resources. Without them, women and children were at risk. In modern welfare states, this leverage collapses: the state acts as “default husband” housing, welfare, healthcare. Thus, men can be individually discarded without destroying the reproductive cycle.

Collapse of natural penalty systems.

For women. No longer existential risk for having children with irresponsible men. The state and community cover the cost.

For men. No longer natural compulsion to provide. He can disappear, evade responsibility, sometimes even exploit global loopholes (“reproductive tourism” to Thailand etc.).

Result? Systemic irresponsibility. Instead of “tension” between men and women producing negotiated balance, both sexes drift toward short-term strategies. Women select based on looks or charm, knowing survival support is guaranteed. Men spread genes without commitment, knowing state/social systems will foot the bill.

Structural absurdity. Society imports private costs into public systems. Taxpayers fund the consequences of male and female irresponsibility. Children — the only powerless agents who often suffer the most, raised in unstable, under-resourced, or absent-parent environments.

Why churches support this? Religious institutions valorize reproduction itself — the act of “bringing souls” into the world — regardless of resources. For them, children are divine blessing, not economic burden. So churches unwittingly amplify the pathology by sanctifying uncontrolled reproduction.

Slower endpoint of the “state-as-husband” system. Evolutionary penalties are erased, but the instincts remain. That mismatch produces irresponsibility on both sides, while children bear the real penalty.

[vintage-sweden]

Snowball fight on the school yard, 1901, Sweden.

[mindblowingscience]

Even Unborn Babies Find The Taste of Mom's Kale Salad Repulsive

The teams believe the findings could deepen understanding of the development of human taste and smell receptors as well as perception and memory.

Babies in the womb are big fans of carrots but not so much leafy green vegetables – and show it in their faces, scientists said in a new study published Thursday.

Researchers at Durham University in northeast England said the findings were the first direct evidence that babies react differently to various smells and tastes before they are born.

A team of scientists studied 4D ultrasound scans of 100 pregnant women and discovered that babies exposed to carrot flavors showed "laughter-face" responses.

Those exposed to kale flavors in contrast showed more "cry-face" responses.

Lead postgraduate researcher Beyza Ustun said: "A number of studies have suggested that babies can taste and smell in the womb, but they are based on post-birth outcomes while our study is the first to see these reactions prior to birth.

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[dramioneasks]

Hello! I just read Aurelian by BittyBlueEyes and I absolutely fell in love with the fic. Do you have any other recs for stories that revolves around Dramione having to protect their kid from bad guys?

The Power of Love By: cleotheo - M, 42 chapters - A teenage pregnancy leads Hermione Granger and Draco Malfoy to seek the help of the Order. But when Voldemort discovers Draco’s secret he has the perfect leverage to get the young wizard to do exactly as he wants.

Choosing Destiny by AkashaTheKitty - E, 6 Chapters - Hermione is missing a year of her life, and nobody knows what she did during that time. Nobody, that is, except him. And he is a Death Eater. All the evidence point to her willingly erasing her memory and covering up all the evidence. So what did she do?

Doppelgangland by damnedscribblingwoman - M, 10 Chapters - All Hermione wanted out of her evening was to close up the pub in peace and quiet. That plan sort of went out the window when she was kidnapped by Draco Malfoy, who proceeded to drop a baby on her lap. Also known as the one that’s almost but not quite a Muggle AU.

The Best of Me - mrsren - M, 27 chapters - Officially, Hermione Granger was killed in action during the Battle of Hogwarts. Unofficially, Draco Malfoy has never stopped searching for her. Years after the war during a mission in France, his salvation comes in the form of a little blond boy and a familiar half-Kneazle.

Tip of My Tongue By: Kittenshift17 - M, WIP - When Draco’s wife is caught cheating and pregnant to another man, Draco must fight for custody of his son, Scorpius. Hermione, determined to ensure her son, Aurelian, grows up knowing his brother without Draco finding out, somehow winds up tangled into the middle of Draco’s impending divorce. Can she help it if she also keeps finding herself tangled in his embrace, and liking it?

The Phoenix Potion by FedonCiadale - T, 111 chapters, Words: 237,679 - Twenty years after the battle of Hogwarts…. Harry is head auror and is worried about cases where Muggleborn children meet with accidents, Ron is a famous Quidditch keeper. Both haven’t talked to Hermione for ages and certainly not to her husband, Draco Malfoy. Narcissa Malfoy struggles with a curse, and Neville and Luna try to stay friends with all. The key to solving the problems may lie in the past, a time nobody really wants to revisit and some can’t.

Hell and High Water By: Mel88 - M, 3 chapters - Life’s choices are unfair, difficult, and occasionally impossible. But to stand in inaction is to perish, and to perish is to fail. What determines survival, and ultimately success, is one’s ability to adapt to the consequences of the action taken.

Simple Kind Of Life - T, 32 chapters - The story goes that they lived happily ever after, right? Well, it’s been fifteen years since the Marriage Law passed and Draco and Hermione were forced to marry; finding love along the way. Now, someone has began to tear the peace of the once arch-enemies apart and began to destroy what they thought was meant forever. Will they fight to keep it together or this time let it slip? (Sequel to Bathwater)

-Lisa

[theamityelf]

[back-then]

Les Petits Savoyards (Street Musicians)⁣ c. 1860⁣ ⁣ Photo: Camille Silvy⁣ Source: Getty Open Content⁣

[oldeuropenostalgia]

Belfast 1962