Model of Oxytocin Molecule (Image by MindZiper) |
Oxytocin, otherwise known as “the love hormone,” ebbs and flows within new mothers. Research
shows that new fathers also “undergo hormonal changes that are likely to facilitate increased empathy and motivation
to care for their children.”
And if not, there’s a spray for that. When dads received nasal squirts of oxytocin, their “MRI brain scans revealed… increased activity in brain areas associated with reward and empathy when looking at pictures of their toddlers.”
Oxytocin therapy might therefore help to bridge fatherly-bonding gaps. This could be instrumental to a child’s healthy development.
Hands-on fatherhood has been known to enhance childhood resistance to “illness and death.”
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